James Joyce has a universe of admirers, and rightly so, for how he changed the face of literature. It’s perhaps more difficult to like him as a person once you uncover the facts around how his artistic obsession brought many consequences, particularly to the people who supported him when he […]
The picture houses of the world are currently alive with Christopher Nolan’s cinematic offering of ‘The Odyssey’ – an ancient Greek story, written by Homer in the eighth century BC. Nolan has, on a number of occasions, demonstrated how to capture the epics majestically and effectively – ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ […]
It was while reading the compelling story of Puerto Rico’s nationalist failed uprising against American colonialism that I stumbled onto a connection between the leader of the uprising, Pedro Albizu Campos, and Eamon de Valera. Nelson Denis, author of ‘The War against all Puerto Ricans’ wrote that ‘Albizu Campos had […]
Jessie Buckley has recently entered the hallowed pantheon of great Irish actors. Victory in the 2026 Oscars, in one of the blue ribbon events that is best leading actress, was achieved by her empathetic performance as Shakespeare’s wife, in the movie ‘Hamnet’. She is now occupying that rarefied place, up […]