LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason I
It is a notable feature of the prevailing world order that citizens of Western states,…
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Fear, Class, and Universal Basic Income
On the April 13 2024, a man stabbed several people in a shopping centre in…
Freebirthing in Ireland
It’s Mother’s Day morning and I am on the brink. Desperate, determined, exhausted and certain…
Applying Hitchens’s Razor: Jim Sheridan and Ian Bailey
Jim Sheridan is a significant figure in the international film industry because of his creativity…
A Whistleblower’s Motive
In a seminal scene at the end of the film Joker (2019) the eponymous character,…
Podcast: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn
The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with…
Being Irish
This Ireland exists. And should one travel there and not find it, then they have…
White Christmas
Editor’s Note: Readers of a sensitive disposition may find aspects of this account of drug-taking…
False Prophecy
Imaginative fiction offers invaluable insights into everything from national characters to institutional malaise and pathological…
The Passing of Shane MacGowan
I sat for a while by the gap in the wall Found a rusty tin…
Classic Paddies
The music was the code. It was the transliteration of the style. It was not…
Public Intellectuals: Thomas Mann
Born in 1875, like many in his era Thomas Mann was initially a Great German…
Ten Faery Tales for Our Time
This article is dedicated to Patrick Healy. The Irish people have a long-standing relationship with…
Liking Lockdown
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.…
Gay?
In the insular, it felt like it at times, enforced statelet of Northern Ireland, sexual…
Covid-19: A Flawed Consensus
Covid is a nightmare from which we are still trying to awake. But whether the…
The Myth of the Spiritual Contract
According to Western medical science I suffer from a condition called depression. And from my…
In Memoriam: Moira Woods
Such sad news. Another member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement is gone. Not just…
Eviction Ban: Towards an Unjust Society
An earlier version of this article was recently published in the Irish World newspaper, we…
COVID-19: Shame on You
A new book COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Bloomsbury,…