Musician of the Month: Ian Fisher
Foreword Sometime in early 2022, in the middle of the fourth or fortieth wave of…
Browsing: the
The Fog of Law
You enter here a taut quintet Where theorists can shift or shape How we make…
Into the River
I can barely make out Richard´s handwriting on the piece of torn paper. “Second left”…
The “Strawman” Conspiracy Theorist
In two hundred years doctors will rule the world. Science reigns already. It reigns in…
Vanishing Ireland: Taking the Waters
Today bottled spring water is an everyday drink, and sales run into the billions every…
The Brick Wall: Access to Justice
I’m living in cloud cuckoo land And this just feels like Spinning plates Radiohead, Like…
Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob
In a quiet room, two men smoke hashish and discuss the inevitability of the Apocalypse.…
Musician of the Month: Hugo Vasco Reis
The process of discovering sounds has always been an aspect of music I’ve been connected…
The Fight for Water in a Thirsty World
La Soif Du Monde (‘A Thirsty World’) and ‘The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker…
The Perpetual Villa
“Il y a longtemps,” I repeated. “A long time ago.” My French felt clumsier every…
Lessons from the Great Depression (II)
Ger-mania… Extraordinarily, Germany appears on the brink of following the lead of Austria in mandating…
The Good Terrorist
Even if these operations are shocking revelations to those who have a romantic notion of…
Musician of the Month: Claudia Schwab
Of New Lands and Turning Points… “You can play! Just take it easy, play slow.…
The Giant Hare of Cloondarone
I felt myself still reliving a past that was no longer anything more than the…
Lessons From the Great Depression (I)
This is the first instalment of a three part essay on the legacy of the…
The Empty Unconscious
Banality is the byword of mass consumerism There’s a piece of public art that for…
Ciarán O’Rourke: Breaking the Cycle
One Big Union is a self-published collection of essays by Irish poet Ciarán O’Rourke. The…
The Most Natural Thing in the World III
To tell you the truth, I could easily have been a father, and I would…
The Grandfather Clause
‘Where DID we come from?’ Coincidence? The Sahara was not always a desert. As evidenced…
The Most Natural Thing in the World II
Are you satisfied now, ladies and gentlemen, you counsellors and therapists of all stripes, with…