Literature

I know there’s some controversy about businesses and bars profiting from people giving of their art for free, but I think it would be a good result if the outcome of Culture Night was better awareness of how much is going on artistically in…

A Statue of Tom Hayden By Jennifer Cook  I was ready to leave it all behind, until you distastefully pushed away your culture war half-pint, topped off with that soggy, hanging green tie, finally looked at me dead in the eye, and announced…

Sarah Devereux’s debut Fringe Festival show, My Fringe Show, is an intimate, irreverent, and deeply personal exploration of modern-day female identity. Upon arriving at Le Fringe Hairdressers on Crow Street, one is welcomed into a darkly…

You were a child once. In your earliest years, you babbled and bumbled in ways you don’t remember now. What was that time like? How did you evolve into who you are now?  Hugh Dunkerley’s second collection of poems, Kin (Cinnamon Press,…

Born in Cork, Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, documentary screenwriter, editor, translator, librettist and broadcaster. His latest collection, Orpheus, takes on the challenging sapphic form to tell the story of Orpheus, the…

‘I changed the world, just so you know.’ Compostela at The New Theatre is a one woman show, written and performed by Miriam Needham and directed by Donal O’Kelly. Sitting down we were greeted by a bare stage which was largely covered…

The sun is shining (occasionally), the beer gardens are open, and language students and tourists alike are still bewildered by the idea of not getting their change back when paying their bus fare. Welcome to the Irish summer! Because we are…

No don’t thank me you should have already had this. It is joyful but then there is all this other stuff. Of course, it was a victory but it should never have even come to a vote. Compostela a play written Mirriam Needham will be one of the…

I finished reading Joseph O’Neill’s Good Trouble last week and had said at the time that it was very unusual for me to be able to sit down and read a book of short stories from start to finish in the order that they were ordered.…

So, I went to Smock Alley last night to take a look at the opening night of The Roaring Banshees which was co-written by Peter McGahon and John Morton. This was the second installment in the 'Ripping Yarn Trilogy'. it follows on from the…