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Poem | The Druid

Peter Doolan/January 6, 2019January 6, 2019

A druid in the wilderness he did proclaim Himself the very keeper of the dawn And be they high in…

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Story | Incognito

Conor Purcell/December 9, 2018December 12, 2018

I thought of being propelled towards a new existence, somewhere, a fresh state rather than a new place. For an…

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Music | Loney Dear At The Workman’s Club

Gerard Lynch/July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

In the almost 10 years since this reviewer last encountered Emil Svanängen, the Jönköping-born talent behind the Loney Dear moniker,…

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Arts | How and why I wrote ‘I Dreamt I Was An Astronaut’

Jeremy Tuplin/February 1, 2018February 2, 2018

I feel that the second part of this two-part question is more difficult to answer. Leaving aside one’s own endless,…

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Insight | Life as an Orchestrator

Daniel O'Neill/August 30, 2017February 2, 2018

As far back as I remember I’ve loved the different sounds of my favourite classical composers. Early on I became…

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Poetry | Home for the funeral

John O'Malley/March 5, 2017February 2, 2018

In memory of our friend Ciarán Duffy Reverting to type we talk as in the long ago Schoolboys meeting outside…

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Music | Ireland’s greatest ever punk track?

Conor Purcell/December 15, 2016February 2, 2018

Between 2002 and 2009 a band unknown in most circles blistered through the Irish underground scene with riotous gigs and…

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Idea | Death of the joke, rise of the factoid

Danny Denton/November 15, 2016February 2, 2018

See: my uncle was once a contestant on Mastermind. Early eighties, height of The Troubles, and, believe it or believe…

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Interview | Sir Richard J. Evans talks 19th century Europe

Wide Orbits/October 23, 2016February 2, 2018

Freelance journalist JP O’Malley caught up with British historian,
 Richard J Evans, in Waterstones Picadilly, in London, on Friday October…

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Music | Katie Kim live in Dublin’s Unitarian Church

Conor Purcell/October 18, 2016February 2, 2018

The soft light throws forty foot shadows along the interior church wall. Window glass reflects the orange hue. But otherwise,…

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Opinion | Dylan’s win reboots the Nobel Prize for Literature

Graham Mooney/October 14, 2016February 2, 2018

Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Validation at last for the voice of a generation; another trophy in…

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Interview | Jonathan Fenby talks modern France

Wide Orbits/October 9, 2016February 2, 2018

Freelance journalist JP O’Malley caught up with British author, Jonathan Fenby in Waterstones Picadilly, in London, on Friday October 7th,…

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Essay | The healing sound: music and the power of the word

Conor O'Malley/October 6, 2016February 2, 2018

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya…

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Poem | Parting Company

JP O'Malley/October 3, 2016February 2, 2018

I remember the last time we made love Feeling nothing – your body impertinently brash. Dressing in darkness, planning our…

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