Reclaiming from Conservatism Perhaps the Greatest Irish Intellectual Edmund Burke
A past competition, now sadly in abeyance, used to involve arguing over who was the…
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Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders Confront Common Neo-Liberal Frenemies
The Corbyn phenomenon – and the utter media-class meltdown over it – is weirdly but…
Joe Rogan and the American Male Zeitgeist
Anyone unfamiliar with Joe Rogan would do well to watch his stand-up shows on Netflix,…
Exclusive: Brazilian Indigenous Leader Condemns Failure to Protect the Amazon
Institutes such as the Amazon Man and Environment (IMAZON) and the National Space Research (INPE)…
Roger Casement’s Example Inspires me to Protect the Amazon and its People
Over the course of 2019 there has been a sharp increase in deforestation in the…
George
Yesterday, I met George. Several times before I’d seen him working on my corner, where…
Mould Into Shape
It has the power to last for a thousand years, but is often only used…
Musician of the Month: Stefano Schiavocampo
The life of any piece of music is unpredictable. From its birth, flowing from the…
White Woman Brown Heart
Even the color of my skin belies who I really am. Always on the outside…
The Sunset Drive-in Cinema
I watched the flamed sky as the earth rolled back and made it seem like…
Archiving the Recent Past: the Loopline Collection
In 2015, documentary filmmaker and Director of Loopline Film, Sé Merry Doyle, and the Irish…
Musician of the Month: Kiruu
Music is like a home. A country. A tribe. A religion or faith. You can’t…
Irish Media’s Business Model Brings Climate Inaction
Following a global trend since the arrival of the Internet, mainstream Irish media, including the…
Section 8
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions…
Culchies – An Excerpt from ‘A Monk Manqué’
In the mid-1990s Seosamh O Cuaig and I were filming a programme for TG4 in…
Review: Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
In the ferry terminal of Algeciras, on Spain’s southern coast, two middle-aged gangsters from Cork…
Albert Camus and the Decline of the Public Intellectual
But again, and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares…
Dubliners Deserve Better Than Bus Connects
Under normal circumstances, developing a bus network should confer great benefits on a city: it…
Bull Moose: Talking to the Person Seated Next to You
Alternative Realities… Among the least discussed, but perhaps most important influence of the Digital Age…
Compost Hill
Few among the crowds walking down Thomas Street will know there is a hidden garden…