NewDad return with Altar, a raw and reflective record blending shoegaze, haunting vocals, and themes of homesickness, growth, ...

Connection to Place will be held at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, on September Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, 2025.

Oscar Wilde once said, “A burnt child loves the fire.” And trauma, much like the horror genre, often exerts a paradoxical pull that both repulses and fascinates. According to psychoanalyst Jacques ...

The Hives: Still Sweden’s Masters of Garage Rock The Hives have been the antithesis of familiarity breeding contempt for over two and a half decades now. Their latest offering, The Hives Forever ...

To quote the great Terry Pratchett, people always seem to have a “little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: Kings. What a good idea.” Even in modern times, when we fool ourselves ...

Have you ever wondered why your dog’s ears prick up even when you hear nothing? You sit reading the newspaper when Toby runs towards the door barking as if his best friend is outside. It could be ...

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright and Marie Curie scholar, works in the digital humanities and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and ...

Marriage is a tricky business, even in a legal sense. Victorian law treated the wife as the servant of the husband, which among other things meant that a wife killing her husband was (up until 1828) ...

A spectre hung over a Wexford beach – and all Irish society – in the 1970s: that of “Nuke Power”. In the ballad the House Down in Carne, this was described as “a terror” that promised to poison your ...

When we slot figures neatly onto the plinths of our national pantheon, the heroic status we make often require some scrubbing before they are fit to be viewed by the public. Figures of national renown ...

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

For the profession of doctor to work in society, people need to trust them. Most honour that trust but a few abuse it, some in horrific ways. One such scoundrel was John Bodkin Adams. Quite how deep ...