Poster design by ARSONAL
Belfast
There is a scene in the first five minutes of the film ‘Belfast’, a scene which shows things will never be the same again. The setting is an estate of…
Cover image by Empire Design
Spencer
After the film Spencer, I had a cheesy veggie burger and a greasy bag of chips. Days later, I realised that was the point of the film, because in the…
Poster by Concert Arts
Mission: Impossible
When I was growing up, AI meant Artificial Insemination, something to do with impregnating cows to give designer calves. Now AI means Artificial Intelligence and MI means Mission Impossible. MI…
Image by Ben Kerckx from Pixabay
The Change
I thought less of him. Why would he beg? Why would he sit there? with a bowl by his leg. I thought less of him. He asked me for…
Image by joaquincorbalan
Why do five out of four people have trouble with fractions?
From my school days of old I could not figure out why fractions were ever invented, Be it four over five or five over four, my confusion could not be…
Image by bess.hamiti@gmail.com from Pixabay
Wake up and Dream
The then sky and the now sky — they are one. Your childhood memories, so far away,Yet they are just yesterday.The clouds move slowly, as if to conveyYou are miles…
Photo by Polinalebed
Learning to Dance
I never was a dancer. I grew up among party piece singers, chancers, and paint artists. But the use of one’s feet was alien; a cold and barren planet that nobody spoke…
Image by mpalis
Church Island, Lough Owel, Co Westmeath
As the ice receded leaving fresh water to fill the fissures of earth, it was maybe in the time of the Fir Bolg or the Tuatha De Danann, they came…
Image by ChantelleL3
Rembrandt’s ‘Christ on the Cross’ 1631 A Café in Mullingar
Howard Jones’ ‘No one is to blame’ pipes through a café in Mullingar in the beat and thrust of electronified syncopation. Am I the only one here stopping for coffee…
Image by Prostock-studio
Daddy and Daughter Cycling
There are no cars parked outside Nanny Quinn’s, the barges lie silent in the cooling summer, as Royal Canal water, seeped in the clays of peat and prickly gorse, glides…