Serendipity is a wonderful thing. Without it, I would never have written A Little History of the Future of Dublin. Trevor White, director of the wonderful Little Museum of Dublin, had asked me to write an “essay” to accompany an exhibition tracing the city’s planning history from the 1660s onwards the futuristic visions put forward by different generations of Dubliners over the centuries. The 1660s might seem like a random place to start, but it isn’t. Prior to then, Dublin …
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I believe in the power of empathy. It is a powerful, vitally important and, unfortunately, oftentimes uncommon thing. The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye’s debut nonfiction book, has no shortage of …
Every Sunday morning, I go for a leisurely scroll. Not a stroll you understand, a scroll, walking my eyes down through the weekly long reads list collated by the news …
One year ago my first book, How to Save Your Planet One Object At a Time was published on Earth Day (22 April 2020). As is natural for any first …
James Baldwin once wrote that the reason people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because, once the hate is gone, people know they will be forced to deal with …
Christmas 2020 promises to be one like no other. Most of us will be at home. There’ll be less visiting but more home fires; less cocktails in bars but more …
It’s really daunting to educate yourself on a subject. It’s very difficult to know where to start, because you don’t know what you don’t know, so you don’t know what …
We live in era in which we are constantly watched. Private corporations, led by Google and Facebook, are engaged in a surveillance campaign so pervasive and sustained as to exceed …
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