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Category: Arts & Literature

Reading Resolutions for 2021: If You Have Not Started Yet  

By Contributor   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

By Claudia Schwarz Most New Year’s resolutions never make it to February, but maybe a late one will last the  distance. Instead of simply setting yourself a quota of books to read per week, why not make it more entertaining. I have listed a few fun challenges that could get the ball rolling!  Read a…

A Recommended Reading List for Black History Month  

By Imasha Costa   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

By Imasha Costa – Arts & Literature Editor  Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo   Winner of the Booker Prize in 2019, this book dives into the lives of twelve British women,  most of them black, as they move through the world in different decades. The novel looks not  only at their struggle, but the love…

Drag Queens in Lockdown: Recognizing Our Queer Culture Through Performance Art

By Contributor   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on February 19, 2021

By Mia Poland One thing that David Attenborough has not reported on this year is that the LGBTQ community has been stripped of its natural habitat. The clubs have been closed due to an invisible enemy leaving the Irish queer community at an awful loss. The performance arts have been heavily impacted by the fluctuating…

“In a room, hidden away” Sonder was Born – UCC’s Newest Creative Publication

By Imasha Costa   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on February 19, 2021

By Imasha Costa, Arts & Literature Editor Sonder: the realisation that each passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. To a group of emerging writers in UCC, this was the perfect title for their newly published zine Sonder, which showcases poetry and short fiction, and reflects the mentality of empathy…

Forgetting how to Read – The University student’s struggle to find pleasure in books.  

By Contributor   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on December 9, 2020

By Claudia Schwarz Everyone warned me, but I refused to believe them: studying literature could potentially  destroy your love of reading. So here I am, desperately trying to take my mind off of my pile of  assignments by getting lost in Philippa Gregory’s fiction. But I can’t. My mind keeps wandering  and I have lost…

Discovering Ireland as an International Student  

By Imasha Costa   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on December 9, 2020

When I first moved to Ireland, I was very adamant to immerse myself in the culture, the art, the  music and get a hang of the slang and the ideas that were growing at the time. I was always a  massive fan of reading (you could argue that I still am), and had a major…

Burning Copper

By Imasha Costa   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on November 27, 2020

Burning Copper By Imasha Costa, Arts & Literature Editor this copper that lingers in my blood rules me, turning me into the person that i am. i learned how to embrace the copper within me, allowing the sunlight to escape and flourish within every cell inside of me; igniting the fire that had been asked…

Poems by Claire Aherne

By Contributor   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on November 27, 2020

Poems by Claire Aherne I whatyouwant light slowly prisming thru my town i go home there is no word for this, i am just about to be born, hold on i have told u this as long as always, and always will – there is nowhere to meet me, we pass, flies to lamps, lamps…

Winter Papers 6: A tradition that does not fade with the light

By Fiona Keeley   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on November 27, 2020

Winter Papers 6 was published by Curlew Editions on Thursday 12th November. Now in its fifth consecutive year, Winter Papers brings together contributors from across Ireland into one complete book that boasts fiction; non-fiction; photography; poetry; and visual art, along with in-conversation pieces on writing, film, and craft interviews. Unlike previous editions, Winter Paper 6…

What will Now look like? – On processing trauma through art

By Julie Landers   Posted in Arts & Literature Byline
Posted on November 26, 2020

When I get overwhelmed looking at all of the things I have to do, I try and picture the tasks as a cluster of tangled necklaces. And with each effort I make to chip away at the work, I figure a new slip in the knots, loosening the chains until eventually the mass slides away…

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