
Dr James Hoctor (University of Kent): ‘From PhD Researcher to Podcaster’
The idea of creating a podcast series was something I had being flirting with during my doctoral studies; however, this was curtailed by the realities

Nicole Burke (TCD): ‘Feminism, neoliberal discourse and the ‘care crisis’ in Ireland’
I fell in love with feminist theory during my time in Carlow College, St. Patrick’s when I took an elective called ‘Feminist Political Theory’ with

Judy Bolger (TCD): ‘A Hopeless Case’: Constructs of Early Twentieth-century Irish Impoverished Motherhood
In July 1907, Dublin mother Catherine Smith was ‘charged with grossly neglecting her four children, one of them an infant’ and she was subsequently sentenced

Eva Burke (TCD): Reading Domestic Noir in the Global Pandemic
It’s safe to say that 2020 hasn’t lived up to expectations for most of us. As the global pandemic continues to thwart plans and dominate

Deconstructing the Solitary Creative Genius by Dr Morgan Cawley Buckley
My nephew once asked his father what an artist is, to which he replied ‘one who creates art’, ever the accurate literalist that my brother

‘Joyce…Ibsen…Egerton…Hamsun…Beckett…Fosse’ by Dr Eoghan Smith
The month of June sees the annual celebrations of Bloomsday, which commemorates James Joyce’s modernist masterwork Ulysses. Ulysses is a text to which I dutifully

ADHD – A Psychodynamic Perspective by Damien McLellan
ADHD – A Psychodynamic Perspective by Damien McLellan The Masters in Therapeutic Child Care Course at Carlow College presented its third national training event in

Dr Simon Workman, ‘There Are Darker Kingdoms: Mapping Modernity in Kevin Barry’s Short Fiction
Kevin Barry – Ireland and the End Times If, as theologian Paul Tillich suggested, the early to mid-twentieth century period can be deemed the ‘Age

‘Objects and Identity – reflections on medieval ‘things’’ by Dr Margaret Murphy
I first became interested in the relationships between medieval people and the inanimate objects they owned as a postgraduate student when I came across a