Arts & Humanities

Poetry: National Car Test

National Car Test By Lyn Hagin Meade Car tests, The leaving cert all over again But I forgot to study And the wrong questions came up. My stomach churns as I sit behind the glass Like in the maternity...

Poetry: Pandemic

Pandemic by Lyn Hagin Meade It’s been a year now,A year of listening to the newsFor the hype and the numbersFor plotting graphs and learning logarithmsWhile the beat of our lives slurs and bucks We are wondering when we...

Chiens Bleus, Chiens Gris by LEYHO

World War I, The Battle of the Somme, 1916, resonates in our hearts and minds. We may know of someone in our family who was there or have read accounts of the horrors of the battle.

One muggy evening in late July, my daughter and I went to see the opening of LEYHO’s Bande Dessinée (BD in France or Comic Book in it’s glorious English lost-in-translation) album Chiens Bleus, Chiens Gris (Blue Dogs, Grey Dogs) exhibition at the Olivier Cornet Gallery in Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1.