By Maeve O’Keefe, Food & Health Editor “Think of the standard, broke, college student’s diet, that’s made up of your beans on toast, pasta, sandwiches and chicken fillet rolls, pizza, cans of Heineken, Guinness… They all have gluten in them, so it’s a constant thing I need to be thinking about when eating or drinking,”…
A Scríobhann Lauren Ní Fhloinn Fuaireas an leabhar “Thirty-Two Words for Field” le Manchán Magan don Nollaig (foilsithe ag Gill Books) agus bhíos ar bís chun é a léamh. Leabhar a phléann le saibhreas agus draíocht na teanga Ghaelainne atá ann, mar is léir ón teideal. Le clúdach crua faoi bhrat ealaíne Steve Doogan, is…
A Scríobhann Édith de Faoite, Eagarthóir Gaeilge Tharla sé ar mo chéad lá sa mheánscoil. Dúirt an múinteoir Gaeilge linn nach raibh sí chun cur suas le dímheas i dtaobh an síneadh fada. Mheabhraigh sí dúinn go bhfuil difríocht ollmhór idir ‘fear’ agus ‘féar’. Ón lá ar sin ar aghaidh, bheartaigh mé liom féin go…
Writes Kyran Leahy – Film & TV Editor Ireland has had its fair share of representation in film and television recently. The country has become the backdrop to several coming-of-age stories as of late that have achieved global attention. You have the college romance story of Normal People, the portrayal of teenage life during the…
Byline Editorial #7 – By Fergal Smiddy Working in a shop every Sunday evening – the quietest and most meandering of all evenings in the retail sector – has given me a fair bit of time to think. You might say, and you’d probably be right, that time, thinking or anything of the like are…
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…
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…
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…
By Selina Dufner “Naomi was the first. She was the great ambassador for all black people. She broke down all the social barriers.” – Halston February is Black History Month and that is the perfect occasion to write about an outstanding and influential, yet kind of forgotten model – Naomi Sims. She is often seen…
By Maeve O’Sullivan – Fashion Editor London-based Irish designer Simone Rocha has announced she will be releasing a collection with H&M on March 11th, 2021. The collection, which has been in the works since Summer 2018, caters not just for women’s fashion which Rocha is known for, but also children and menswear. The collection encompasses…