28th July 2022
A series of short essays reflecting on the experience of rejection. Contributors: Danielle McLaughlin, Jill Crawford, Neil Hegarty, Angelique Tran Van Sang, Anna Walsh, Mia Gallagher, with an introduction by Thomas Morris.
29th January 2021
Satanic panic, screen violence and Irish doorways to Hell: Róisín Kiberd meets legendary game designer John Romero.
25th January 2021
The tragic death of a Chinese performer in Loughrea, County Galway, in 1936 inspires Clara Kumagai to examine concepts of belonging, sameness and home.
15th December 2020
Louise Nealon invites us all to join her in raising a glass to the queen of Irish literature.
7th August 2019
As one of the city's oldest sporting spectacles, the Horse Show is a Dublin institution butting up awkwardly against the modern world.
18th July 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.
15th July 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."
4th April 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.
13th March 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?