Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
“Like dogtooth dresses, white-stripe boating blazers or block-heeled shoes, this book is sure to appeal to those who have lived, loved and revived the Dublin mod scene.”
The cover of the book asks: “What if the weird news is the real news?” A reasonable question to pose in 2021.
In this futuristic imagining of an afflicted and dystopian Ireland, rising sea levels have taken vast swathes of the midlands and brought on a new way of life.
“My dad and his friends formed a football team called the Dorset Boys in the seventies,” says Patrick Osborne. This was an inspiration for his book, Baxter’s Boys.
“The Ireland that was promised to these young men is not the one that they have found themselves in. This book tells the tale of aging men in a youthful nation state.”
“Get this book. Engage with Rebekah Taussig’s ideas. Let yourself see the view from her ordinary resilient disabled body.”
“What We Don’t Talk About is an essential read. It tackles nuanced racial moments that give context to the wider topics we’re all trying to take head on.”
This anthology of poetry by working-class people from contemporary Ireland has many good points, but is unfortunately short of the voices of migrants, our reviewer writes.
The collection is made of poetry and romance. It’s one of those special books that awakens the imagination and rekindles the flame of stories once heard as a child.
Traveller stories and histories have been recorded before but it’s mainly been done by people outside of this community, Oein DeBhairduin says.
Part memoir, part dictionary, part antiracist treatise, this book takes readers through Kendi’s personal antiracist journey, arriving at his current understanding.
Everything about this book is truly stunning, from cover to cover. The Henna Wars is essential reading, writes our reviewer.