One little piece of history, RTÉ Broadcaster Myles Dungan picks out his favourite
Myles Dungan presents the History Show on Radio 1, he also lectures in UCD. It’s safe to say he’s well versed in the historical writing […]
Articles by Conor Fay
The beech trees, the internet, Slenderman and me — a night time gander through the town-lands of Trim, Co. Meath.
The Walk It was past midnight and I walked the backroads of my locale, Phillinstown Trim, a bland country mess for the bored or a vibrant throb […]
Ivan the Terrible, the rogue of Soviet Film and Stalin’s problem with it
Ivan the Terrible Part 1 and 2 were produced throughout the 1940s which was the roughest decade of Soviet history. The decade saw a Nazi […]
Come and See: an essential film in the World War II canon, but the toughest watch
There is no anniversary, no convenient reason as far as I can see to start harping on about Elem Klimov’s 1985 film Come and See, […]
1917 Revolution Centenary – 4 cultural artefacts of Soviet Russia which spit in the face of Stalin
Possibility, for Russia, was unchained in 1917 when Lenin and the Bolshevik Party tossed out the Tsar and replaced him with a Constituent Assembly. Universal […]
Agent Provocateur: Nick Mullen versus the maddening moan of Twitter’s Leftist comrades
A blight is spoiling the crop. Identity is being starved and the manifest hive mind is beginning to rear its darling head, again and again. […]