As part of our countdown to Animation Ireland’s Meitheal 2026, we caught up with Sherry Gunther Shugarman, Co-CEO of Heeboo ...

Conan Gray brought the Wishbone Tour to Dublin’s 3Arena with theatrical staging and an emotional, high-energy set packed with ...

Joseph Learoyd reports on the upcoming Irish animation industry event, Animation Ireland’s Meitheal 2026, taking place on the ...

I am duty bound by myself, to discuss how my trans femme experience relates to my idea of what “girl horror” could constitute. Much of what Avalon is depicting is idyllic to a trans woman, the kind of ...

So began my fascination with horror films, a passion that was only sated by sneaking downstairs when my parents were asleep to watch the late night horrors on BBC and Channel 4 or organising ...

One of the big problems with using paintings and other art pieces as a historical source is that most artists don’t depict reality as it is but rather reality as they wished it would be. Idealised and ...

To quote the great Terry Pratchett, people always seem to have a “little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: Kings. What a good idea.” Even in modern times, when we fool ourselves ...

Diogenes was born over twenty-four hundred years ago, which is more of a problem than historians like to admit. People didn’t keep great records back then, of course, and not much was written down. Of ...

Marriage is a tricky business, even in a legal sense. Victorian law treated the wife as the servant of the husband, which among other things meant that a wife killing her husband was (up until 1828) ...

Harry Thaw was born into privilege. From childhood he was told that he was special. Because he was rich, he was assured, he was entitled to anything he wanted. Rules were for the poor – he was above ...

There are always those who see opportunity in chaos. The destruction of the old order leaves gaps that need filling, and “men of vision” see nobody better than themselves to fill those gaps. This does ...

Corbucci followed Django with the lesser, on account of some racist casting, but still enjoyable Navajo Joe. Wearing a wig that made him look like Natalie Wood, Burt Reynolds stars as the titular ...