The Secret Model – Subtle Complaints
Entering the dragon’s den I arrive twenty minutes late for a casting, but it doesn’t…
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HEY POCKY WAY
In the year of our Lord 2019, what remained engrained was an émigré from the…
Forest
Nightfalls. Creatures are on the move, Leaping, dancing, diving, digging, loving that’s the art of…
Musician of the Month – Bartholomew Ryan of The Loafing Heroes
‘Descend the stairs, bend your legs, melting one by one. / Open your mouth to…
Old School
I felt him sliver under my shirt as she belted me in with a quicksilver…
‘Don’t let me stop you from going for a swim’
Picture this scene. Next to a Martello tower, a grimy concrete shelter below which a…
An Irish Poet Attains Greatness
I am sticking my neck out to declare: Micheal O’Siadhail’s book-length poem, The Five Quintets, is…
The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
RTÉ Says: ‘Stars’ In Their Own Cars
One trail runs dry, but a scent hangs in the air. Pursuant to Stephen Court’s…
The Origins of Poetic Creation
We can only imagine how poetry entered human consciousness. I intuit that its emergence was…
A Hurler’s Silver Branch Perception
One evening, while walking on Derada Hill, a hare sprung from under my feet. I…
Leopold Bloom and the Art of Loafing
What does it mean to be a loafer? Loafing as an activity has always existed.…
Twosome Twiminds in Casement and Joyce
Where to begin the story of Roger Casement, humanitarian crusader, knight of the British realm,…
Hard at It – A Short Story
And so the time came to rent an office space. We must all find our…