The Irish Seminar, which is currently underway and runs until the 3rd of July, provides a wide variety of lectures, seminars and workshops on Irish studies by a number of writers, academics, journalists and curators. The topics include Irish literature, culture, politics and society within an international context and should be of interest to readers [...]

“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.”
Nancy Mitford

Amidst the collapse of the Irish economy, the inhabitants of a rural hinterland begin to feel the touch of the dead hand of the housing market.
This [...]

Another year at the movies and another good one. Too often we hear jeremiads about the decline of cinema and the lack of good films out there (of course, such gripes are usually based on a diet of English-language cinema, which is far from being the world’s most interesting at the best of times). But [...]