Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
Westland Row
The birthplace of the playwright and essayist Oscar Wilde, Westland Row is now, as you can see, much grubbier than it was in Bloom’s time, both graffitoed and vandalized. Built in 1776 by Jacob Epstein, it now appears to be the permanent home of unkempt students from Trinity College who congregate in indolent [...]
In honour of Ireland’s first flâneur après la lettre, Leopold Bloom, members of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society took it upon themselves this year to re-create his dérive, as described in James Joyce’s remarkable novel Ulysses, and in our usual spirit of bloody-mindedness, to do it in Paris, source originaire de [...]
For How Much Longer Will We See Images like This?!
I am sure you were both horrified, like me, to read in the newspapers this week about the disgusting debate in the Catalan parliament to ban bull-fighting forever in that region of Spain. Those of us with any sense of history or appreciation of cultural identity [...]
“Inter fans, I am have some good news and some bad news!!!”
I am not a great fan of logic, as you are all know, but when you have won the most prestigious club competition in the world with two mediocre clubs, logic must dictate to you that there is nothing left for you to do [...]
Statement on the Euro Crisis from ATTAC, the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens.
We stand together for peoples-based solutions. Make finance pay and reclaim democracy.
Several European ATTAC welcome and support the just resistance of the peoples of Greece and of other southern European countries in their refusal to pay [...]
A baker’s dozen of little-known facts about those giants of light entertainment The Muppets.
1: The original names for Statler and Waldorf were Heckler and Cock
2: The word “Muppet” has a Victorian origin. It was coined to refer to “musical pets” such as singing canaries, piano-playing dogs, and catskull maracas.
3: The gobbledygook-spouting, weird-looking cook [...]
Ouija Boards are brilliant. Some people think that they are not brilliant, but they are wrong. What a Ouija Board is, is a special type of wooden board with writing on it that students use to roll spliffs on. However, they have many other uses beyond the obvious: They can also be used by teenagers [...]
David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Maggie Thatcher, Lady Di. Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating!!
For the next 12 months, no Real Madrid fan is going to be able to get a shoeshine, a pizza delivered, or a happy ending, because all of these mundane and menial tasks will run the risk of an [...]
As with the first article in this series, forgotten faces is more of a discussion piece than a finished analysis. It’s only in the later issues of The Ripening of Time, especially nos. 11 and 13 which date from 1979 and 1980 respectively, that we get a full and detailed Marxist analysis of Ireland in [...]
