“I had come across the diary of a war criminal and been surprised to find it was also a love story. My idea in rewriting it and the title I chose – ‘First Love’ – was to invert this expectation.”
Philip Ó Ceallaigh Essay 9th December 2021
An essay concerning the experience of crying as a trans masculine person, and the ways in which our gender and character are scrutinised based on our most instinctive, unstoppable expressions.
James Hudson Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
An essay about Ludwig the cat, and the writer who lives with him.
Camilla Grudova Essay Issue 42, Volume 2: Summer 2020
Cathy Sweeney Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Sandra Hoffmann Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Billy Ramsell Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
John Patrick McHugh Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Maggie Armstrong Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
“Out of everything I watched, only one show truly captured my imagination and that was the BBC police drama Line of Duty.”
Nicole Flattery Essay 6th March 2021
Satanic panic, screen violence and Irish doorways to Hell: Róisín Kiberd meets legendary game designer John Romero.
Roisin Kiberd Essay Issue 43, Volume 2: Winter 2020-21
The tragic death of a Chinese performer in Loughrea, County Galway, in 1936 inspires Clara Kumagai to examine concepts of belonging, sameness and home.
Clara Kumagai Essay Issue 43, Volume 2: Winter 2020-21
Louise Nealon invites us all to join her in raising a glass to the queen of Irish literature.
Louise Nealon Essay 15th December 2020
Kevin Barry celebrates the selected stories of a writer who continues to bamboozle and enthrall readers.
Kevin Barry Essay 14th October 2020
A lecture on the mysterious role of inspiration in the writer's work and life, first delivered at Bray Literary Festival in September 2020.
Paul Lynch Essay 30th September 2020
How a ‘blockbuster sci-fi contagion plot’ has caused one teacher to question the meaning and value of the traditional writing workshop.
Sean O'Reilly Essay 26th June 2020
Jeff Young Essay Issue 42/Volume 2: Summer 2020
Lisa McInerney Essay Issue 42/Volume 2: Summer 2020
Tim MacGabhann Essay Issue 42/Volume 2: Summer 2020
A lecture on the facets of writing and being a writer, first delivered at Bray Literary Festival in September 2019.
Mia Gallagher Essay Issue 41, Volume 2: Winter 2019-20
Phil is eighty-five. She has been dying for forty years.
Molly Hennigan Essay Issue 41, Volume 2: Winter 2019-20
Ali Isaacs Essay Issue 41/Volume 2: Winter 2019-20
As one of the city's oldest sporting spectacles, the Horse Show is a Dublin institution butting up awkwardly against the modern world.
Ian Maleney Essay Issue 40/Volume 2: Summer 2019
Sport is admirable and sport is deplorable. It is an innocent pastime and a pernicious addiction. It means nothing and it means everything. It can be a force for good and for evil.
Tadhg Coakley Essay Issue 40/Volume 2: Summer 2019
The stories of women in Direct Provision are a continuation of Ireland's long history as a carceral state, a place where "it is a lot easier to offer somebody a halfway house and ambivalent status than to grant them the right to a home."
Carol Ballantine Essay Issue 40/Volume 2: Summer 2019
Martina Evans Essay Issue 40, Volume 2: Summer 2019
Fiction, that work of the imagination, is a means of making sense of the world, and a way to escape the darkest of realities.
Jan Carson Essay 4th April 2019
The story of Gil Courtney shows us that, when it comes to making things up, some people really just want to believe. And who can blame them?
Wendy Erskine Essay 13th March 2019
Colin Barrett introduces Nicole Flattery's debut collection, 'Show Them A Good Time', a book that captures characters and relationships in one-liners that crackle with unerring timing and verve and terrible lucidity.
Colin Barrett Essay 6th March 2019
Embarrassment, unease, discomfort – these are the building blocks of a new language; the first steps on a path beyond the consoling myths of the everyday.
Sean O'Reilly Essay Issue 39, Volume 2: Winter 2018-19
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