Overheard in the Local
Overheard in the local last night D’ye go to mass at all? Ah, just the…
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Thought Leadership Required for Climate and Biodiversity Crisis
The great English chemist James Lovelock conceived the Gaia (Gr. ‘goddess of earth’) Hypothesis in…
Public Intellectual Series: George Orwell – A Crucial Man for Our Time
George Orwell has never been unfashionable, and is in vogue now more than ever. His…
Refugee Education: Can We Regenerate Lost Generations?
The future of a generation born during over eight years of conflict in Syria is…
Bull Moose: ‘We apologize, we love China’ – When Money, China and Values Collide
Two stories were in the headlines this October illustrating how money is undermining our values.…
NARLI: Independent Music Worth More Than Money
A hegemonic, neoliberal logic based upon competition, exploitation, and inequality appears to have largely supplanted…
Ismail’s Story
What is the experience of a refugee caught in the crisis on the Mediterranean Sea?…
David Cameron and the Origins of Brexit
In 2015 comic Frankie Boyle penned a darkly titled article ‘What if David Cameron…
The Conman and Correspondence with Kurt Vonnegut
I admire old people who live by their wits, like the ancient American, a real…
‘A slap in the face to bus users’ – Dublin Commuter Coalition responds to proposal to allow EVs in bus lanes
In a press release, the ‘Dublin Commuter Coalition’ has described proposals for electric vehicles to…
Cora Venus Lunny Launches New Album ‘Numinous Soup’
Numinous Soup is an album I quietly made by myself in my spare room on…
Himself and the Little People
That summer of 1974 for the first time in my young life I felt proud…
The November Events
What is it they say about going bankrupt? Slowly at first, and then all at…
Poetry – Mark Burrows
The Resistance I never knew what they really felt how they survived the one world…
Musician of the Month: Natalia Beylis
The Steadfast-Starry Sky in the Shannon Do you remember last year when the weather…
Artist of the Month – Doireann Ni Ghrioghair
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”60″ gal_title=”Featured Artist of the month: Doireann Ni Ghrioghair”] There is many a country…
No Comment: Philip Smith ‘Bonfire Wars’
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Lament for Áirt Uí Laoire
In August of 1969 I was driving across Ireland with the late Bearnard Ó Riain,…
Hate Crimes in Spain not as they Seem
Some years ago I read about a small theatre in Moscow staging hard-hitting plays critical…
Bull Moose – Climate Crisis to Opportunity
As Washington swirls with the drama and intricacies of the impeachment enquiry, spare a thought…