“Their rise might have been slow and methodical but it’s led them to the cusp of a real moment.”
“If ever a book was destined to have Corkonians rubbing their hands together in glee while Dubliners roll their eyes, this is it,” writes our reviewer.
In this book, journalist Caelainn Hogan “sheds light on the darkest corners of our recent history in Ireland, but also holds up a mirror to today”, our reviewer writes.
“I never used to play Arabic stuff out, and then I slowly started to introduce random songs,” says Jamal Sul. “I started to realise that people actually liked it and I thought, ‘That’s weird.’”
“Often very funny, at times incredibly tragic,” this film is “a remarkable balancing act of shifting tones”, writes our reviewer.
Each month, the New Romantics choose a fresh theme for people to craft poems around. Like “rebellion”, “queer romantics”, or “heathens and infidels”.
“Shookrah come across as young, fun, tension-free outfit with confidence in every part of their machine.”
The hope is to recreate the 19th-century salons hosted by Lady Jane Wilde, also known as Speranza. A recent Saturday was the first event.
Úna-Minh Kavanagh’s memoir tells of her adoption in Vietnam, upbringing in Kerry and move to Dublin – and it’s a celebration of the Irish language, writes our reviewer.
Artist Avril Corroon’s exhibition of toxic cheese wheels, made from mould in Dublin and London’s apartments and workplaces, opens soon at the LAB Gallery.
This novel is “a worthy and much-needed effort that cements Amitav Ghosh’s position as a master of the genre of climate-change fiction”, writes our reviewer.
At times this feels like an all-too-straightforward exploration of a cult musician’s work – but if the aim is to spark interest in him, it certainly succeeds.
