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Posted in Family, History, Reviews, Theatre on Oct 3rd, 2011
Juno and the Paycock – poster image Watching Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, about the Boyle family in Dublin, was often a little like watching my own family in full flight. The hilarious spats between Juno and her husband – known alternately as Jack, The Captain and The Paycock – are like the [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Guest Posters, History, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
Among my many favorite things, (which include bacon fries, anything Mark Gatiss has ever done, the word ‘phantasmagoria’ and theme parks, to name but a few) one that ranks rather highly is stories about eccentric, unconventional and often brazen women who happily disregarded what was socially acceptable for their gender in the times they lived [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Blast From the Past, Domestic, Family, History, Personal, Women on May 26th, 2011
A week ago it was my grandmother’s birthday. Nanna lives all by herself in a little council flat in central London, a flat with a tiny paved square in front which is filled with carefully tended pot plants, like a leafy bubble in a grey, concrete world. I phoned her, as you do, and my timing [...]
Posted in Domestic, Family, Guest Posters, History, Ireland, News, Parenting, Personal, Politics on May 23rd, 2011
All the talk of Obama’s visit to Ireland today, brings me back to the evening of his inauguration, January 20th 2009, when Himself came home to find me on the kitchen floor. On my knees. Surrounded by the usual mish-mash of baby changing paraphernalia – sudocreme, wipes, tiny nappies and – ahem – masking tape. SKY [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, History, International, Parenting, Politics, Women on May 23rd, 2011
By releasing his birth certificate last month, Barack Obama was hoping to silence the ‘birthers’ who’ve been blabbing on about his place of birth for years. The image of his live birth certificate was instantly picked up by the media and bloggers. I happened upon it on some website and wanted to take a closer look. My [...]
Posted in History, International, Ireland, News, Personal, Politics on May 20th, 2011
I can now confirm from personal experience that Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl, but she didn’t have a lot to say. Well, that’s not entirely fair. She didn’t say a lot to me individually, but the fact that she took time to stop to talk at all was remarkable. I was lucky enough [...]
Posted in Blast From the Past, Books, Guest Posters, History, Personal, Random Wonderfulness on May 19th, 2011
My pride in being Irish has taken a beating over the past few years. Government corruption and clerical child abuse shook me to the core. When the recruitment ban on public sector jobs left me unemployed almost two years ago, I emigrated to the UK like so many of my peers. But while there I missed [...]
Posted in Celebrity, History, International, Ireland, Politics on May 17th, 2011
Every Republican under the sun, it seems, wants the Queen to apologise for the whole enchilada from Strongbow’s invasion of Ireland and the manky spud famine to Bloody Sunday (Part I & Part II). But won’t Elizabeth Windsor suffer enough faced with a barrage of Irish c’lebs from Amanda Brunker to Lorraine Keane − whose contribution to Irish culture has been to tell motorists to avoid the Kimmage crossroads [...]
Posted in Beauty, Blast From the Past, Body image, Fashion, History, Travel, Uncategorized, Women on May 5th, 2011
Get your body beach ready! Get your bikini body now! What? Why? My body IS beach ready thank-you, lumps, pale skin, wobbly bits and all. I just want to swim, not to enter Ms South Beach. I’m not going out there to titillate the surfers. I simply want to build an enormous moat with the [...]
Posted in Blast From the Past, Celebrity, History, International, Ireland, News, Personal on Apr 29th, 2011
Quick: where were you when the Pope came to Ireland? Me, I’ve got no idea. Before I’m excommunicated, I should point out that’s because I’m not Irish, and wasn’t living in Ireland at the time of the papal visit. Ask me, though, where I was for the Queen’s Silver Jublilee (two years before all Irish [...]
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