104 Years of Same Old Same Old It’s been 104 years since we first elected a Fine Gael government (and I know it had a different name then). We first elected a Fianna Fáil government 92 years ago. We’ve had a century in which power was shared by Fine Gael and Fianna...
An artwork that does not contain nudity or blasphemy provokes public outrage? What the hell is going on? It’s rare for a piece of art to make a stir in public discourse and when it does it’s usually because it’s terrible – the famous Anna Livia sculpture in Dublin is...
On Saturday 18th of February, a group of high school students, members of Collective Sum , peacefully occupying their school in protest at a variety of problems, were attacked by a group of fascists from an organisation called Azione Studentesca (Student Action) which...
Presented at Trinity College Dublin Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini 04/November/2022 When I was invited to take part in homage to Pasolini I was initially reluctant because it was framed as a discussion of my translation – or more precisely, from my point of view,...
The Tailor of Ulm (Il Sarto Di Ulm) by Lucio Magri (translated by Patrick Camiller) Honeymooning in 1979 on a package holiday to the Hotel Alaska, Rimini (it’s surprising how attractive the word Alaska sounds on a hot July day in Italy), I became friends with a man...
