What might have been?
Like Frost's The Road Not Taken, John Greenleaf Whittier instead contemplates the road most taken. His poem Maud Muller is most famous...
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The Phallusy of Jordan Peterson
Many in Australia and around the world have lauded the Canadian academic Jordan B. Peterson, whose refusal to use chosen pronouns has...
Ballymun by bicycle
I left Ballymun in 1998, before the billion-euro improvement plan which saw much valuable land released and the community without a...
Orwell's Border
A year ago I did a medical test as part of applying for permanent residency. I went for a Government-mandated chest x-ray, HIV test and...
Christine Keeler: a view from 1963
When I was 14, I remember being fascinated by this picture of Christine Keeler. She emerges from the dark; suggestive and demure, but...
Requiem for a Soundtrack
Soundtracks were, as a teenager in the nineties, a fantastic resource. Reservoir Dogs, Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine; even the Clueless...
Repeal the 8th
Photo credit: David Smith - "Time Travellers for Choice" The amendment to the Irish constitution which proscribes abortion was introduced...
A flâneur in Westfield
An inspiring documentary by Patrick Keiller recently brought my attention to the work of Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin....
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