Album Review: Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Style
With Car Seat Headrest Toledo is brazenly unafraid to lay himself and his process bare, and thankfully people are finally ready to listen.
December Bitesize: Mince Pies, Biscuits, Julborg, Bier & Gifts
December's Bitesize features seasonal foodie ideas from the Pepper Pot, Lismore Food Company, Blazing Salads, And Union and Riot Rye Bakehouse and Bread School.
These Songs of Freedom: Front Line Defenders’ Dublin Platform
Front Line Defenders' Dublin Platform, which was hosted in November in Dublin Castle, brought together 118 human rights defenders from 100 countries. The one thing they all had in common…
Win Tickets! A Christmas Carol & Unshaped Form at Bello Bar
Win tickets to A Christmas Carol and Unshaped Form at Bello Bar
Backpack Challenge
Basecamp the outdoor store in Middle Abbey St, Dublin have started a backpack challenge to help make life a little bit easier for those effected by homelessness. They need your…
Nice Gaff: Architects – Herbert Simms
It starts and ends with Herbert Simms: the extraordinary City Architect of Dublin in the early twentieth century, and for me his perfect building is Chancery House, a stone’s throw…
Garb: Names Jewellery
Clare Grennan and Laura Caffrey have been serving the good people of Dublin the coolest curation of Irish craft and design since 2008. Now, going back to their roots in…
Conor Walsh – The Keys, the Secret
Mayo composer Conor Walsh talks about the value of letting go of your music.
Barfly: Forty Foot Bar And Grill
Along with its extraordinarily low prices, the most striking thing about the Forty Foot is probably how brightly lit it is inside.
Soundbite: A Glass Apart – Fionnán O’Connor
In the midst of a revival of interest in Irish whiskey A Glass Apart celebrates the culinary nature of the pure drop. We talk ancient grains with author Fionnán O’Connor.
Restaurant Review: Locks 1 Windsor Terrace
Locks may have gone through a lot but it’s still a beautiful room over-looking the canal, with really lovely food and service.
Restaurant Review: Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud
There is no doubt in my mind that my lunch at Guilbaud’s will prove to be one of the most memorable, for the experience if not the food. For a…
What if Dublin… Built High (Quality)?
The call for higher density and economical competitiveness is opposed by voices that fear the unique intimate character of the city centre could be destroyed. Dublin’s low rise charm is…
Book Review: Did You Ever Have a Family – Bill Clegg
When I say this is the kind of book literary magazines would call ‘quietly powerful’, I do not mean it in a kind way.
Book Review: City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
Set in mid-1970s New York City, City on Fire is a maximalist account of the lives of characters – interconnected to varying degrees – against the backdrop of a New…
Book Review: Irish Bitches Be Crazy – Emma Comerford
Irish Bitches reads half as a heartfelt training manual for future Irish mammies, and half as an extended off-colour Christmas dad joke.
Book Review: Public Library And Other Stories – Ali Smith
For the most part, the stories show Smith at her best: a healthy fascination with double-entendres, misunderstandings, döppelgangers and distant lives meets smart, sophisticated and kind narration.
Review: The Best Small Fictions 2015 – Ed. Butler & Masih
The Best Small Fictions 2015 is a collection of the best fiction – not stories – under 1,000 words. Pieces range from a couple of lines to those wrestling with…