Caitlín Nic Íomhair

With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme

“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.

Dean: On Meljoann’s Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Techno Dystopia

“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”

Caitlín Nic Íomhair is a scholar and writer from Bangor, Co. Down. She completed her PhD on the work of Biddy Jenkinson, and is working on her first poetry collection and lecturing at Maynooth Univers

2 articles

Culture Desk

Tairngreacht, Reviewed

A burnt-out journalist witnesses a murder near the graves of two exiled taoisigh in Rome in an impressive thriller marrying modern corruption with early Christianity.

Caitlín Nic Íomhair Oct 16, 2019

Culture Desk

Lámh, Lámh Eile, Reviewed

This imaginative noir comedy novel follows a misanthropic PI around Ireland – and is built on in-jokes, literary allusions, and puns on Irish language place names and orthography, writes our reviewer.

Caitlín Nic Íomhair Jan 30, 2019

With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme

An ecosystem in a matchbox serves as an ice-breaker for a new Dublin biodiversity network

Dean: On Meljoann’s Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Techno Dystopia

Tairngreacht, Reviewed

Lámh, Lámh Eile, Reviewed