This edition, I wanted to highlight one of the most influential and famous female Irish poets. ‘My Country in Darkness’ is a poem that reflects a great hardship that faces Ireland that I can greatly relate to and that I think most young people will be able to relate to. ‘My Country in Darkness’ by Eavan…
By Imasha Costa It has only been recently that there has been a mass representation of women of colour within the science fiction and fantasy genre. The likes of growing up with Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings, it has been eerily uncanny that it has not been possible to see people of…
By Cian Pierce This issue, I wanted to share one of my favourite poems by the 20th century, Chilean, Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. In “If you forget me,” Neruda emphasizes the need for reciprocity in his romance, though the subject of the poem isn’t completely clear, it could be his home country Chile, or…
By Cian Pierce STEM; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. These fields of study are pushed on us from a very early age, schools favour stem subjects allocating them bigger budgets, spaces and overall, more time is offered to their teaching. This emphasis on STEM education, especially in public schools can lead to a degradation of…
By Cian Pierce This February 10th-15th marks the second annual celebration of #DouglassWeek! Frederick Douglass moved his family to Washington, D.C. from Rochester, N.Y. in 1872. 150 years later, #DouglassWeek will remember and celebrate the importance of the Douglass family. Douglass week is a collaborative event series that celebrates the arrival of Frederick Douglass in…
By Cian Pierce One of the main characters of the Stephen King novel ‘The Green Mile’ is John Coffey (played in the movie adaptation by the late Michael Clarke Duncan). Coffey finds himself on death row, wrongfully convicted for the “killing” of two white girls, but he possesses enormous supernatural powers. While in jail he…
By Cian Pierce This Black History Month, I thought it only appropriate to highlight some Black excellence through the following creatives you should check out! Emma Dabiri Emma Dabiri is a TV presenter, author, PhD researcher and teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS. Her book ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ is an incredible…
Le Caitríona O’Connell Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir! Agus 2022 buailte linn, b’fhéidir gur rún na hathbhliana é duitse chun níos mó béim a chur ar an nGaeilge sa bhliain nua. Más ea, seo cúpla smaointí chun níos mó Gaeilge a úsáid i do shaol i 2022! Frásaí simplí a úsáid i gcaitheamh an…
This week on Poet’s corner I have decided to share a poem by Cormac McCarthy, our Express Film & TV Editor. The poem is about delicatessens and will definitely make you hungry. I strolled through the city, Craving something with girth. Till I came to shop, And I laughed with such mirth. My stomach…
By Cian Pierce Last August, Amy Jordan, a London-based author, made a post to TikTok with the title “Books that left me heartbroken and shattered for days”. Set to the song ‘Je te laisserai des mots’ (I’ll leave you words) by Patrick Watson, the short video plays as Jordan holds up and transitions through a…