Next up in the OTR’s 500 Words Of January series, John Buckley on Ireland’s collective tolerance of inequality, injustice, racism, homophobia, corruption and discrimination and why – and how – this can be challenged in 2013.
A fortnight from today, Peter Murphy’s second novel Shall We Gather at the River will be in all good bookshops and online retail stores. Here, he talks about some of the influences behind the book.
The second in OTR’s 500 Words of January series comes from Annie Atkins on dancing in the cinema aisles to Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense”.
We kick off 2013 on OTR with 500 Words of January, a series of guest posts on anything and everything. Back in August 2010, we invited a bunch of guest writers to contribute to OTR and they did so with …
Last but by no means least, the final entry in OTR’s 500 Words of Summer series. I hope you’ve enjoyed this week of other voices on the blog and, yep, I think we’ll do it again sometime. We end with …
The next guest post in the 500 Words of Summer series comes from James Byrne, the man behind Any Other City Records. Here, he explains just why he runs a label.
OTR’s 500 Words of Summer series continues with music writer Lauren Murphy rewinding five years to how the Irish music scene looked in 2005.
For the latest post in our 500 Words of Summer series, we say hello to music programmer Aoife Flynn who wonders if we’re living through a golden age for Irish music.