It’s cliché but true that nothing exists in or comes from a vacuum, and video games are no exception to this. Nowadays, video games have become so widespread that the terms gaming and gamers are treated by most as basically synonymous with…

Words Ireland @ ILFDublin: A National Day for Writers On Friday 25 May, Words Ireland is hosting a national get together for writers at IMMA in partnership with the International Literature Festival Dublin Words Ireland is creating the…

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” John Keats Poetry Day Ireland takes place on April 26th and the theme…

The Lit Review is back, with book festivals in Dublin and Cork, poetry and short story competitions, workshops and more. Competitions & submission calls RTE Radio 1 Short Story Competition The 2018 RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story Competition in…

July 7, 2009. It’s midnight. Everyone’s sound asleep in their standing coffins. Well, almost everyone. There’s a small group of armed teenagers sneaking into a love hotel. It’s a bizarre tableau, perhaps, but it’s par for the course in Port…

People forget just how limited the scope for sitcoms could be back in the 1980s. Sitcoms nowadays rarely break new ground, regularly outshined by big-budget behemoths like Game of Thrones. TV in the 21st century has embraced its ability to…

Do You Require An Advice Slip? By Niall Bourke Make time each week to let the word Schnubart molest your tongue; about-to- unblock is better than the unblocking; spend more time watching ants; learn to skim stones; seek out nature…

The holy love child of the Coen brothers and Sergio Leone, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is the type of fresh inventive genre take that winds up an art-house classic. With the sweltering-hot countryside of modern day Indonesia standing…