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
On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Anna Kavan's contribution to twentieth century literature remains grossly under-appreciated.
Andrew McEneff Essay 5th December 2018
Sarah Maria Griffin Essay Issue 39, Volume 2: Winter 2018-19
Clare Archibald Essay Issue 39, Volume 2: Winter 2018-19
Michaële Cutaya Essay Issue 39, Volume 2: Winter 2018-19
Erica X Eisen Essay Issue 39, Volume 2: Winter 2018-19
Reflecting on the creation of her first collection of short stories, Mia Gallagher elucidates the perpetual lesson of writing: that it’s always easy, and always hard.
Mia Gallagher Essay 31st July 2018
Facebook's founder is the most visible and enigmatic icon of the digital age. But what does he mean?
Roisin Kiberd Essay 27th June 2018
"I laid there with a blue sheet covering my face with a hole cut into it for my eye. This was my eighth and final unsuccessful eye surgery. It had been five years, one month, and twelve days since my first."
Serena Lawless Essay 6th June 2018
Brian Davey Essay Issue 38, Volume 2: Summer 2018
In a small town in rural Spain, a different way of life is being built, one day at a time.
Keith Payne Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
What can the attitudes of Ireland's housing officials tell us about their ability to handle the country's most serious housing crisis in living memory?
Danielle McLaughlin Essay 6th December 2017
Emilie Pine Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
Craig Gibson Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
Lane Shipsey Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
Rachel Andrews Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
Catrina Davies Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
Danielle McLaughlin Essay Issue 37, Volume 2: Winter 2017-18
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