Jul 16, 2025 | Latest
Ciaran Quinn, Sinn Féin Representative to North America, here reviews the RTÉ documentary, NORAID: Irish America and the IRA. The first part was broadcast last Wednesday and the final episode goes out tonight at 21.25. Both can also be viewed now on the RTÉ Player....
Oct 11, 2024 | Latest
An abbreviated version of this feature has already appeared online but this is a much fuller piece by the Galway-based lecturer and writer, Jenny Farrell, who is also an Associate Editor of Culture Matters. The sixtieth anniversary of Seán O’Casey’s death fell on 18...
Sep 27, 2024 | Latest
Just read More Tales About Life, Love & Death by Paul Marauder, a collection of poems and flash fiction dedicated to the struggle of the Palestinian people and their suffering in Gaza. The writing is potent, visceral and personal, often in the first-person, and...
Feb 1, 2024 | Latest
Writer and poet Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic* reviews a new book of poetry by north Belfast man Scott McKendry which is published today. -oo0oo- By way of introduction to Scott McKendry’s first full poetry collection Gub, the author offers a dictionary-style definition...
Aug 13, 2023 | Latest
Tim O’Grady and Steve Pyke’s photographic novel, I Could Read the Sky, first publsihed in 1997, has just been reissued in a brilliant new edition, along with an audiobook which combines O’Grady’s reading with a score created by fiddler Martin Hayes (who in a concert...
Jul 27, 2023 | Latest
I told Sinead O’Connor this story in 1997 in London–and she teared up. I had written it in 1992 in H-3, Long Kesh, for An Phoblacht/Republican News. The next day she gave me a miniature Madonna and Child statuette. SHORTY We had an Irish juke-box in...
