Irish Papist

Anyone who's read more than a handful of posts on this blog knows that I'm always complaining about the decline of poetry. Well toda...

Maria Steen, the prolife and social conservative activist, has just missed out on getting nominated as a candidate for the Presidential elec...

I've just finished watching Goodbye Lenin! , the 2003 film about a woman who falls into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...

Many years ago, I was watching a documentary (or a "featurette") about the Lord of the Rings movies. In one interview, Viggo Morte...

Going to public lectures, book launches, etc. and asking the most stupid questions you can think of. It would be funny but I don't have ...

Laura Perrins doesn't agree with right-wingers who lament Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation. Was Kimmel cancelled? It's not entirely c...

A little of the way through the second volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume novel series , I was on the point of giving up. Not be...