Essay

"It hurts to struggle, to reach for things that you might not yet be able to meet... When will I be enough? All I can do is keep writing, keep meeting my ideas and my words with an openness that I encourage in others and struggle to find in myself."

Olivia Fitzsimons Essay 4th May 2022

Butcher’s Dozen

Sean O'Reilly on the reissue of Thomas Kinsella's ‘Butcher's Dozen’ to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday: “a timely reminder that the past has to be fought for and poetry is not beyond lending a hand.”

Sean O'Reilly Criticism Essay 25th January 2022

My Life as a Plagiarist

“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

Watching the Detective

Ian Maleney Essay Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

True Story

Anonymous Essay Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Freak Aguacero

Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Essay Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Billy Bones His Fancy–on Tattoos

Joshua Calladine-Jones Essay Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Shape/Colour/Weather

Sarah Maria Griffin Essay Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Boys, Crying

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

A Boat To Bilbao

An essay about Ludwig the cat, and the writer who lives with him.

Camilla Grudova Essay Issue 42, Volume 2: Summer 2020

A Story Of Our Time: Notes on Kafka’s The Judgement

Cathy Sweeney Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

Swimming

Sandra Hoffmann Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

Conversations With Jóhann

Billy Ramsell Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

Name Your Character

John Patrick McHugh Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

Trouble

Maggie Armstrong Essay Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

Essential Viewing

“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

A Hell Taxonomy

Satanic panic, screen violence and Irish doorways to Hell: Róisín Kiberd meets legendary game designer John Romero.

Róisín Kiberd Essay Issue 43, Volume 2: Winter 2020-21

Memorials

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

Edna O’Brien’s 90th Birthday Banquet

Louise Nealon invites us all to join her in raising a glass to the queen of Irish literature.

Louise Nealon Essay 15th December 2020

Awkward Relations

Kevin Barry Essay Issue 43, Volume 2: Winter 2020-21

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