‘Time = Hope + Disappointment’ from the Notebooks of Thomas Kinsella I have never lived through a revolutionary period before, so I have nothing to compare this to. But it’s certainly more draining then I…
Posts By David Lynch
How Deep is Your State?
Originally posted on Arab Spring in my Step, David’s blog while in Cairo, on Saturday 16th of June. After three weeks of a bitter Presidential election campaign Egyptians go to the polls today, only days…
Today We Should Remember the Martyrs
Today millions of Egyptians, for the first time, will get to decide who will be their President. Yes there is some cynicism and concern about the election. (Which I wrote about in ‘The Agenda’ magazine last…
The Sans-culottes of revolutionary Cairo
When I studied the French Revolution, I always found it difficult to visualise who the sans-culottes were, what they looked like, where they hung out, what they did on a Friday night after a hectic…
Love in “The City of the Dead”
David Lynch is an Irish journalist working in Cairo. His reports are regularly published in the Sunday Business Post. This was taken from this blog Arab Spring in My Step. Valentine’s Day is not so…
The real Yacoubian Building and how “there is often a woman involved”…
When I arrived in Cairo three months ago my first stop was not the Pyramids. Not the Egyptian Museum. Not even the beating heart of the revolution- Tahrir Square. (Be warned your first trip to…
Covering the Sphinx in Wax or talking about Shaw and Mahfouz
“You are Irish, I like George Bernard Shaw” “Shaw. Wow…I don’t know much about him” The disappointment on the face of the Egyptian man sitting beside me would have made the Sphinx cry. It was…
As night descends on Tahrir…
David published this on Arab Spring in My Step last night. Just back from reporting from Tahrir. It was dark, heaving with people, tear gas swirling in the air, the sound of street battles on…
A Day Spent in Tahrir Square
David Lynch spent Sunday on the streets around a Tahrir Square in revolt. He will be writing about the events in Cairo in the Sunday Business Post on Sunday and we’ll be putting his posts…
“can, Spring be far behind?”
Book Review: ‘On the State of Egypt- The Issues that Caused the Revolution‘, Alaa Al Aswany (AUB Press 2011) David Lynch is currently based in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. He…
There Will Be Blood
This blog post was originally published today in David’s blog An Arab Spring in My Step, which he has set up while in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. Eid al-Adha in Cairo,…
Book Review: Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots and Revolts in Ireland
Book Review: Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots and Revolts in Ireland, Edited by William Sheehan & Maura Cronin, Mercier 2011 Riots get a bad press. After the rubble is removed, rioters tend not to have a…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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