Musician of the Month: Donal Gunne
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. And that is poetry. As…
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The Communist’s Daughter
In the morning before waking, I dream of vast empty plains of flatland and red…
The Other Great Troubadour
Unlike Bob Dylan who is still actively making music, Leonard Cohen has not released a…
Musician of the Month: Ellie O’Neill
I’ve never needed a reason to write a song. There have never been any conscious…
The Dogs and Deer with Fionn mac Cumhaill
We’ve lost Fionn and his Fianna, the stories that were told for hundreds, thousands of…
The Doomsday Machines – saving ourselves from ourselves (with audio)
https://soundcloud.com/frank-armstrong-649911741/the-doomsday-machines-ii-recording-1-2020-01-09-t01-29-51pm-frankarmstrong Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film ‘Dr Strangelove’ dramatizes the still not-altogether-remote scenario of Mutually Assured…
Occupied Territories Bill: Government Defies Dáil Majority Leaving the Jaber Family to their Fate
On a crisp, sunny morning in Hebron in January of this year my friend Atta…
The Shadow of Italian Justice
Nowhere that I have visited has quite the charm of Umbria, Italy’s throbbing green heart,…
Musician of the Month – Bartholomew Ryan of The Loafing Heroes
‘Descend the stairs, bend your legs, melting one by one. / Open your mouth to…
‘Wild Law’ is the Path of Natural Justice
“every member of the Earth Community has three inherent rights: the right to be, to habitat, and to fulfil its role in the ever-renewing processes of the Earth community.”
Confronting ‘the Russia in Ourselves’
The Russian bear looms in the English-speaking imagination as savage and barbaric, but with a…
The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
The Origins of Poetic Creation
We can only imagine how poetry entered human consciousness. I intuit that its emergence was…
History’s Dead Hand on the Middle East
Last month’s opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem served to re-ignite Palestinian rage against…
Leopold Bloom and the Art of Loafing
What does it mean to be a loafer? Loafing as an activity has always existed.…