You can "Arrest Yourself" on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi. She will turn 65 under house arrest, which this Nobel Peace Prize winner ...

Family ties, as a verb, here. Fog shrouds Dublin, secrets shame, and again intimacy curdles into revenge, hatred, and murder. "Chris...

Caitheann muid ag dul an dochtúir beithíoch inniu. Cruinnigh Leon agus mé ár chú ar cheile. Thiomaint beirt léi (mar bhí Fido ceann baineann...

An intellectual's heap of his highbrow reading, interviews with three of the band (where's Larry?), and big ideas on Irish identity ...

"My father spoke six languages but couldn't hammer a nail straight." (215) "It takes no words to do good." Makepeace...

I took the Jung-Myers-Briggs Typology test for the third time (different questions however each time) over the past year or two, and it'...

Chónaic mé leis mo mhac is sine faoi deireanach seo. Bhí maith linn é. Mar sin féin, ní mór a bheith an-aireach sa chás scannáin seo. Bíonn...

This appears in Estudios Irlandeses, Number 5, 2010, pp. 187-189. The pdf is on line at "Irish Studies around the World" . I compa...

Coxsoft Art Works remarked: "Here are two portraits of her friend Fenella Lovell, not exactly a bundle of laughs with or without her c...

Music "can take your blues, dust them in a wicked mojo, sneak them to the crossroads where the Devil hangs out, and swap them for a veg...

Efficiently told, often convincingly argued, this surveys the late medieval and Spanish secret police, courts, and prisons where "heret...

My son asked if one could survive only on meat. Contrarily, I looked up this history of vegetarianism to find out. Orthodoxy and conformity ...

Bhreatnaigh mé an scannán seo le Wes Anderson aríst faoi deireanach. Bhí cuimhne orm sé chomh an-mhealtach ann. Chonaic mé "Roicéad Bui...

Buddhism beyond Asia's explored by 22 scholars in this 2002 collection. It focuses on the transformation, since the later 19c, of the Bu...

Robert Wright writes about the folly of assuming critics such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett deploy reason to their advantage when di...