Pandora’s Slippery Box
It is difficult to speak of abstract forces without personalising them, or investing them, magically,…
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What One Thing Could Make You Happier?
Studies show that if you get married and then divorce, your happiness will dip below…
Cancer – A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves
We have not slain our enemy, the cancer cell, or figuratively torn the limbs from…
The Torture of my Irish Visa Application
I am writing this account for the sake of those who follow. As victims of…
Twinned
Storrington Place of storks and green- clad chalk. Are the Gypsies still perched on ‘The…
Nonetheless
A cormorant dives to feed, then perches, its wings spread to dry. There are fish,…
Artist of the Month – Moira Tierney
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”20″ gal_title=”Featured Artist of the Month: Moira Tierney”] The beach is one of…
Ancient Irish Sagas
The following is a short retelling and interpretation of a number of Irish sagas, including…
The Key Change to Fix the Irish Constitution
The Harp needs more than tuning. The single most important and useful change we should…
We Need Another ‘New Deal’ and Umbrella to Unite Under
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), U.S. President between 1933 and 1945, was born to enormous privilege.…
Steve Bannon’s Tour de Farce
Donald Trump’s former confidante Steve Bannon has been on a latter-day American Grand Tour around…
Sunset Over a Seizing Civilisation
This piece came from a little sound I heard in my head, an atmosphere, which…
Rimbaud in the Emergency Room
Interstitial space: a space between structures or objects, i.e the contiguous fluid-filled space existing between…
Inside the Heartland of Italy’s La Lega
At the age of sixteen, in 2001, I took a job in a small factory…
World Cup Fans Conquer Russia
How to fathom the phenomenon of ‘fandom’? Certainly it is one of the most familiar,…
If on a Winter’s Night a Lithuanian Spoke with Leo
The great Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities imagines a conversation between the Mongolian emperor Kubla…
Your Fitbit Might be Walking You into Trouble
In the previous edition of Cassandra Voices Eoin Tierney explored the extent to which data…
The Origins of Poetic Creation
We can only imagine how poetry entered human consciousness. I intuit that its emergence was…
My Fellow Americans – A Short Story
When I first moved to Dublin, I thought there were a lot of out-of-shape athletes…
