In the first ten panels of Sabrina, we see a woman carefully and silently searching a house until she happily pulls a large grey cat out from beneath a bed. Later, we have two men standing on opposite sides of a door, one with a takeaway…

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright and Marie Curie scholar, works in the digital humanities and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On…

Take a slurp of that. A fine batch today. No need to twist my arm. Cuchulainn’s Coddle. After the empire fell to the hoards of Fenians in 1916 the consumption of coddle rose astronomically across the Isles of Eire. Coddle became a mainstay…

Its not a “good” film, but that’s not what makes Mama Mia! so interesting and even, inspirational. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVnD9i7BpE The film is based of the West End musical, where the songs are crammed in order to get something…

The sport of horse racing has provided a plethora of historic moments throughout time. One such moment was produced on a racetrack across the Atlantic 95 years ago when a morbidly mad record was created by an Irish American by the name of…

The Incredibles might be one of the 21st century’s best superhero films. Written and directed by Brad Bird, the 2004 Pixar animation centred on a family of superheroes in exile, called into action to save the world. The sequel has arrived…

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be in Dublin at the same time that Poetry Ireland held an event at their building off Parnell Square on the place of Edmund Spenser in Irish poetry. The discussion involved Trevor Joyce, Leanne…

Maxwell James may hail from Wales but he brandishes an American musical heart no less earnest than any other Nashville hopeful. His debut EP weaves the familiar threads of classic Americana – blues, country, a touch of rock – with, for…