Concept | Turning the world’s deserts green
The extent to which deforestation is harming global communities is a matter for serious international concern, and immediate positive action….
Music | Katie Kim live in Dublin’s Unitarian Church
The soft light throws forty foot shadows along the interior church wall. Window glass reflects the orange hue. But otherwise,…
Opinion | Dylan’s win reboots the Nobel Prize for Literature
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Validation at last for the voice of a generation; another trophy in…
Scifi | Noise some, Words some
Intercepted email correspondence, September 8th, 2016: “So I ran an open source speech recognition system on the ambient office…
Insight | A writer’s take on coping with depression
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it…
Interview | Jonathan Fenby talks modern France
Freelance journalist JP O’Malley caught up with British author, Jonathan Fenby in Waterstones Picadilly, in London, on Friday October 7th,…
Essay | The healing sound: music and the power of the word
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya…
The Lost Brother | Uncovering a family past
The long history of Irish emigration to the United States is mixed. In 1928 two of my grandmother’s brothers left…
Ernest Walton | The Irish nobel laureate who split the atom
In July 2012, a little over 60 years after the first successful atom smashing, CERN – the European Organization for…
Idea | How people with sports addiction are like drug addicts
Participation in sports is a highly visible aspect of 21st-century life, with a normative dimension. Sport benefits health, encourages self-discipline,…
Poem | Parting Company
I remember the last time we made love Feeling nothing – your body impertinently brash. Dressing in darkness, planning our…
Idea | Why kids can learn more from tales of fantasy than realism
Children have a lot of learning to do. Arguably, this is the purpose of childhood: to provide children with protected…