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?
6th 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.
13th December 2018
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.
5th December 2018
On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Anna Kavan's contribution to twentieth century literature remains grossly under-appreciated.
31st July 2018
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.
27th June 2018
Facebook's founder is the most visible and enigmatic icon of the digital age. But what does he mean?