
Film Freak by Christopher Folwer – Review by Mary Donnelly Like many readers I came to Christopher Fowler after seeing the rather arresting cover of Spanky in the horror section of a […]
Film Freak by Christopher Folwer – Review by Mary Donnelly Like many readers I came to Christopher Fowler after seeing the rather arresting cover of Spanky in the horror section of a […]
The Programme of the 2014 Dublin Writers Festival has just been announced. We’ll do a full review of the programme later, but there’s a couple of events that jumped off the page […]
This week, we’ve got a new production of ‘An Ideal Husband’ starting in the Gate. The Japanese Film Festival starts in the Lighthouse, and there’s the Spotlight seminar in the IFI. On […]
JKF’s Last Hundred Days by Thurston Clarke – Review by Cormac Donnelly When President Obama shook the hand of Raul Castro at the funeral of Nelson Mandela in December 2013, international media […]
The clocks have done their springing forward and it’s starting to feel an awful lot like Summer! Yes, we’re hoping for a good one, and it should draw people out of hibernation […]
The Spinning Heart was the first published novel by Donal Ryan, and tells the tale of small town life in Limerick. The story is told as a collection of interwoven short stories. […]
Dublin has recovered from the general madness of St. Patrick’s day and the world continues as before. There’s lots of new stuff to see and do around the city, so without further […]
St. Patty’s day is here. Need I say anything else? Yes, tourists have engulfed our fair capital and are desperately seeking the promised land that is ‘Temple Bar’! Theatre The Abbey – […]
It’s almost Paddy’s day, but the big day itself isn’t until next week! We still have a chunk of the festival itself on for you to explore. You can find out full […]
Seamus Heaney was Ireland’s greatest living poet and a Nobel prize winner, who sadly died in August of last year. Poetry Ireland and One City: One Book have organised a night to […]
Mark Kermode is a grumpy man. He is made more grumpy by the state of our cinemas- how they show movies, what they are showing, how they sell their tickets. Remember when […]
Gruff is back, with a new ablum, but also a film, book and an app! He’s back in a big way, as he says himself, it’s a “multisensory experience telling the incredible […]
Dublin Writers Festival kicks off this May, running from the 17th to the 25th. They’ve just announced a few events, with Ray Davies of the Kinks possibly the most the exciting of […]
The Free by Willy Vlautin – Review by Helen O’Leary Willy Vlautin’s reputation as a novelist is slowly growing. His last book was short listed for the IMPAC Prize but he still […]
Is Worst. Person. Ever. one of the worst novels ever written? No, but Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel is without a doubt his worst.novel.ever. I say this from the point of view of […]
This is one of Guy Delisle’s earliest Travelogues, with a trip to Shenzhen, China to oversee the completion of a children’s cartoon in 1997. Delisle spent a three month period in China, […]
Love is in the air…. everywhere I look around… do do do, do do do. Yes, it’s another one of those holidays created by greeting card companies, if you want to be […]
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes – Written by Mary M Talbot, Drawn by Bryan Talbot. Published by Jonathan Cape. This is a graphic novel written by Mary Talbot and illustrated by her […]
Willy Vlautin may not be a household name, but many will know him better as the lead singer with the band Richmond Fontaine! Willy has also written a number of books, including […]
Bill Callahan is in Dublin, yes, that Bill Callahan, of Smog fame, and even (Smog) fame, if you want to get precious about it. It’s hard to compete with that for your […]
Why is Cuba Beautiful? Review by Sean Sheehan Cuba in Revolution, texts by Richard Gott, Peter Kornbluh, Mark Sanders (Hatje Cantz) Cuba, Andrew Moore (Damiani) There should be a place in everyone’s […]
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk Doomed is the second novel in a trilogy that started with Damned. In Damned Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer finds herself damned to Hell after […]
Not lost is an unusual body of work from poet, journalist and sometimes novelist Sarah Maria Griffin. It takes us from the weeks before she left Dublin to the new world she […]
We bid fond farewell to the first festival of the year, First Fortnight Festival will be back next year, with some luck. So what of this week? What’s in store for us […]
‘What’s another year’ a wise man once said, and here at the workhorse we share Johnny’s emotion as it’s out with the old and in with the new! 2013 was always an […]
It was the intriguing story behind this book that caught my attention initially. The novel was first published in America fifty years ago. At the time it sold no more than 2,000 […]
What is a Photograph by Sean Sheehan Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes (Vintage Classics) Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, edited by Geoffrey Batchen (MIT Press) No self-respecting student […]
The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories – Christine Dwyer Hickey The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories tells of Dublin through the ages. Written by award winning […]
Christmas is in high gear, and it’s all about tinsel and fairy lights at Workhorse towers. In between the manic shopping and egg nogging (ok, that’s not a word) there’s a surprisingly […]