There is something in the words here that really speaks to me. A middle aged man who has viewed the wider events spoken about here and has celebrated the victories of empowerment for women.
Book of the week – we were rich and we didn’t know it
An intriguing read of a world with no technology. A world of feet and animals for transport instead of bikes and cars. Where food was grown and killed for eating and hot water shared as though it was currency.
Book of the week – the reluctant fundamentalist
A story that reminds us that life can take so many roads depending on circumstance
Book of the week – The Anarchist Detective
Yep, this is a crime novel. Yep, there are twists and turns and yep the ending is good. How they get there is worth your time which is the most important part.
Book of the week – Pull of the stars
Based in a Dublin hospital with scenes of today. The squalor of a century ago is captured perfectly here. Alongside the frontline heroes, sadness abounds. Snippets of a war no soldier wanted and most misunderstood and a country rising to demand its own voice in poverty and hunger.
Book of the Week – the wild Rover
the wild rover The autobiography of Tomas O Cinneide Translated by Padraig Tyers Mercier Press Well we all have one book in us and this is Tomas O Cineides one. His life story Begins with the pure poverty which so many people were born into over a century ago. It doesn’t get much better as … Continue reading Book of the Week – the wild Rover
Book of the Week – the making of Ryans Daughter
The book reads like a film in itself with hotel parties, house parties and pubs overflowing with actors, extras and movie workers spending their money with great ease.
In Concert
A selection of favourite gig memories from Irelands music community in aid of Irish Red Cross. When we first saw the heartbreaking pictures from Aleppo we reached out to those people we know best, our friends in the music community. Six months ago Hope *2 came out. This featured contributions from those in the punk community in an effort to raise money for pikpa lesvos centre. We held back on many contributions from the Irish music scene as we felt it would be nice for this group to extend their support. The results are In Concert. Whilst there are many more who could and deserve to be included we feel this can help form part of a ‘secret history’ of the irish music scene.
Book of the week (and probably year) Leonard and Hungry Paul
Through the pages we get to know the characters, ordinary people living ordinary lives. These are the people in my world, the people in my job, the people I went to school with.
Book of the week – Capital Is Dead
Punk rock, critiques of capital, Karl Marx and cultural theory as we have run out of world to cannibalize and commodify