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Alan Bennett was a stand-up comedian for a while and during that time he toured with David O'Doherty and Maeve Higgins and did well in some competitions and co-ran Schnitzel Comedy Club. Then he started writing fiction and it has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies including 30 Under 30 which Joseph O'Connor chose as one of his books of the year for The Irish Times. He received a Masters with first class honours in creative writing from UCD and a BA in fine art painting from LSAD. Now he's working on getting his novel on, and being in charge of HeadStuff.org.

Brain/Body

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, or Leonardo da Vinci as he is better known, or the blue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle as he is even better known, or Leonardo DiCaprio as he is perhaps best but certainly most-incorrectly known, was good.…
Film Features

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Appended Legend of the Month - Philip Seymour Hoffman I can’t remember when I first saw Philip Seymour Hoffman in a film. It might have been Boogie Nights, which, when I first watched  it, I loved because you saw boobs in it. Later, I…
Literature

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens was a writer, debater and all-round rational man. He wrote for many big magazines and wrote many books and through all of them you get the opinionated, no-nonsense, yet elegant style that brought him fame. He…

Crosaire No. 100

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Almost everyone in Ireland knows the Irish Times crossword. Some know it as the ‘Crosaire’, some as the cryptic crossword; more, I assume, know it as the impossible one beside the Simplex crossword that they might occasionally attempt .…

Lost At Sea

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Fourth Class. “D’yeh wanna play chasin’?” He looked up at Max. Max was usually mean; he didn’t want to be tricked. He looked around Max. David, Séamus and James were among the group standing at the door waiting for him, they were…
Short Fiction

Gary Traynor and His Feet

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I’ll tell you all about the fella who lived around the corner there. Gary Traynor was his name. Gary Traynor lived most of his life in, in terror. Now, it was a sort of irrational terror that was based heavily on disgust. To be particular,…