
Shining a Light on Dark Personalities | Part Two: Noticing the Narcissist
Miriam King is currently a Lecturer in Psychology in Carlow College, St Patrick’s. Miriam’s research interests include dark personality traits, defence mechanisms, criminal psychology and

Shining a Light on Dark Personalities | Part One: Spotting the Sadist
Miriam King is currently a Lecturer in Psychology in Carlow College, St Patrick’s. Miriam’s research interests include dark personality traits, defence mechanisms, criminal psychology and

Why are we now seeing an ‘alarming rise’ in measles cases?
Analysis: antibiotics and vaccination all but wiped out such traditional infectious childhood diseases as measles during the 20th century By Dr Ida Milne, Lecturer in

‘Can’t Make It All Alone…’ Love and Hope in the Pogues
Thirty-six years ago, in November 1987, just in time to compete for the highly coveted Christmas No.1 spot in the UK music charts, ‘Fairytale of

Michael Sherman: ‘I’d rather not live like there isn’t a God…’ The Gospel according to Kendrick Lamar
Endings matter. While a good start is half the battle, nothing beats a ‘mic-drop’ finish. The American rapper and songwriter, Kendrick Lamar, brought his headlining

Transforming Patrick in the Medieval WorldÂ
Transforming Patrick in the Medieval World At some point in the fifth century CE a former slave called Patrick made the decision to return to

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