Barfly: Not Playing the Game
It’s refreshing to see Kylian Mbappe refusing to endorse Budweiser at the World Cup.
The 12 Illustrations of Christmas
We look back on our 2017 archive, when we approached a selection of illustrators with the simple brief of encapsulating what Christmas means to them...
Roadmap: The Scoop
This new indie, women-led food mag brings a welcome focus to long-form content under the watchful eye of publisher Kristin Jensen, editor-in-chief Dee Laffan and creative director Áine Duffy.
Transformations: All this happened, more or less – Jayne Quan
“Whenever I see arguments about trans people made by people who do not identify as trans, I wonder what their radical acts of self-love are,” asks Quan in their essays.
Digested Digest: Sparkling Sips
"Too often, we tangle ourselves up in the conditioning that the opening of a sparkling wine needs to be justified by merit of an excuse or occasion – please, life…
Barfly: Fidelity
The Dice Bar reopens this week thanks to a collaboration between the boys behind the Big Romance and Whiplash Beer.
Sound: Prolific – Laurie Shaw
Releasing his seventh album this year is just par for the bountiful course Laurie Shaw finds himself on.
Book Review: Getting Lost
Getting Lost is essentially the diary Ernaux kept while engaged in a protracted and intense love affair with a Soviet diplomat.
It’s A Grand Life – A Seasonal Short Story By Séamas O’Reilly
"When I talk about how I spent that Christmas twelve years ago, people usually ask what I learned from opening every letter in Ireland that was addressed to Santa." -…
Merry And Bright: 10 of the Best Dublin Pubs For A Winter Warmer
In our experience, the worst of the bleak midwinter is best ameliorated by marching into town at least once during the Season for a restorative bevvie with old pals in…
Brand New Retro: When Wigs Were In
For a time in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was acceptable and fashionable for young Irish women to wear wigs.
Roadmap: The Busk
The Christmas busk is a time honoured tradition in which some of the ‘names’ in our music industry get to the streets for a good cause.
Roadmap: Carvings – Luke Fallon
"Individually, these small echoes of the past may not be terribly important; together, they’re a portrait of a city’s soul through the decades.” - S.P.F. Mulligan
Save a Sod This Christmas!
Gift a 'Sod' in someone's name to protect and care for a piece of Irish land and the species that live on it.
Roadmap: Slow Perfection
Laoise Carey got in touch to show us some images from her A/W ’22 Lookbook and their patchwork vibrancy caught our immediate attention
Album Review: Gareth Quinn Redmond and Conor Campbell – Umcheol (Cú Chulainn agus Ferdiad)
"Umcheol (Cú Chulainn agus Ferdiad) feels almost miraculous in the singularity of what is achieved, never before has the ancient sang so harmoniously with the cool futurism of synthetic sound."…