Irish Literature

Getting Away

A necessary literary device to throw characters together in unfamiliar settings, communal family/friend away-events feature a lot in genre and popular fiction. If fiction teaches…

World Politics

Martha or Mary?

Should religious women stay in their own ‘female’ spheres, or compete on an equal level with men in worlds constructed by and for men? Some…

Irish Art / Culture

Hadn’t we the Gaiety?

One writer has claimed that the singing of Percy French’s comic songs was once considered by some to be offensive, yet the best-known collection of…