Musician of the Month – Branwen Kavanagh
I recently sweated in a dark, low tent. Fifty other bodies squatted close to mine.…
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Post-Truth: People of the Lie
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the basis of all morality. Mahatma…
Animal Proteins Make Cancers Grow No Matter What the Original Cause
The possibility of an association existing between animal protein and cancer goes back at least…
UK’s Surveillance Regime in Breach of European Convention on Human Rights
In a previous editions of Cassandra Voices we discussed the Russian surveillance system, called SORM,…
Sprawl: the Origins of Dublin’s Car Dependency
During the 1990s the Irish state achieved economic lift-off, with almost double-digit growth each year.…
Dating a Narcissist is no Tea Party
In nineteenth century England, ‘erethism’, or ‘mad hatter disease’, was an occupational hazard for hat…
What We Learn On Psychedelics
At a festival recently I fell into the company of an exuberant character in his…
Ryan Tubridy’s Ethical Flop
Ryan Tubridy is the highest paid broadcaster in Ireland’s state broadcaster, RTÉ, earning close to…
Musician of the Month – Gareth Quinn Redmond
It was around this time last year that I had arrived back to Dublin after…
A Life in Love with Music
It is a river vast, both wide and deep that corrals out joy and sadness;…
Two Poems
Anthony Caleshu’s forthcoming book, from which this pair of poems is taken, is titled, A Dynamic…
Archaic Oscars Find no Place for Millennial Fantasies
This August the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new award, honoring…
An Irish Poet Attains Greatness
I am sticking my neck out to declare: Micheal O’Siadhail’s book-length poem, The Five Quintets, is…
Alternatives to Italy’s Political Malaise
Seemingly out-manoeuvred by more experienced, and ruthless, political ‘partners’, the Five Star Movement (M5S) has…
The Audacity of a Third Party Candidate
The problem with writing about the U.S. Democratic Party, whether analytically, historically, or even as…
The Towering Qualities Needed in an Advocate
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Tower of Song’ is a short history, and valedictory, to the tradition of…
Inside the Session
The Cassandra Voices musician of the month for September, Louise O’Connor, explores what makes a…
How to Free Yourself from a Narcissist
A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them,…
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an unqualified success. While the number of goals scored…