Really Good Time finally release their debut album, Affirmations. Wastefellow talks trust, bananas, Rian Trench and the ...

Diogenes was born over twenty-four hundred years ago, which is more of a problem than historians like to admit. People didn’t keep great records back then, of course, and not much was written down. Of ...

Corbucci followed Django with the lesser, on account of some racist casting, but still enjoyable Navajo Joe. Wearing a wig that made him look like Natalie Wood, Burt Reynolds stars as the titular ...

Like most people involved in espionage, Moura Budberg was largely a creature of her own invention. She spent most of her life shrouded in lies, but she knew the trick to getting people to believe them ...

Jeanne de Clisson was born in the French town of Belleville-sur-Vie in 1300. She was the one of the de Belleville family, who had ruled in the area for hundreds of years. In fact, she wound up being ...

Steve Woods is an Irish animator who has worked in the industry since 1988. His work encompasses animations, documentaries, dance films and experimental films. In 1989 he co-founded the Galway Film ...

The cliched idea of the “thin line between genius and insanity” is one that has been discussed by both psychiatrists, cultural commentators and pop psychologists for decades. In one sense it’s an ...

From the visceral intensity of The Money Store to the cryptic, boundary-pushing chaos of Year of the Snitch, Death Grips never played by the rules. Their relentless energy, anti-mainstream ethos, and ...

The infamous Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley in 1848, though everyone just called her May. The Shirleys lived in Missouri, where May’s father John owned a successful farm on the outskirts ...

A spectre hung over a Wexford beach – and all Irish society – in the 1970s: that of “Nuke Power”. In the ballad the House Down in Carne, this was described as “a terror” that promised to poison your ...

It’s important that when trying to dress like a poet, you don’t make many of the rookie-poet mistakes. We’ve put together this guide in order to keep your dress code poetic and to stop you making ...

When we slot figures neatly onto the plinths of our national pantheon, the heroic status we make often require some scrubbing before they are fit to be viewed by the public. Figures of national renown ...