Conor Fay

One little piece of history, RTÉ Broadcaster Myles Dungan picks out his favourite

April 20, 2017

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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 of Ireland from the last century. The grave of Charles Stewart Parne...

The beech trees, the internet, Slenderman and me — a night time gander through the town-lands of Trim, Co. Meath.

Conor Fay

April 19, 2017

Life and Style, Travel

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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 for the keen. I hate that I typically lean towards the former but...

Ivan the Terrible, the rogue of Soviet Film and Stalin’s problem with it

Conor Fay

April 19, 2017

Culture, ENVIRONMENT, Film, Slider

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Uncle Joe missed a beat watching Eisenstein's masterpiece - Photo Credit Jim Donnelly (Flickr) Ivan the Terrible Part 1 and 2 were produced throughout the 1940s which was the roughest decade of Soviet histo...

Come and See: an essential film in the World War II canon, but the toughest watch

Conor Fay

April 10, 2017

Culture, Film, Slider

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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, the terminus of World War II movies. Nothing convenient no, but perhaps it will...

1917 Revolution Centenary – 4 cultural artefacts of Soviet Russia which spit in the face of Stalin

Conor Fay

April 8, 2017

Culture, History, Slider

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A ghoul - Photo Credit: Antonio Campoy (Flickr) 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 s...

Agent Provocateur: Nick Mullen versus the maddening moan of Twitter’s Leftist comrades

Conor Fay

March 23, 2017

Comedy, Culture, Slider

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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. It did so just last week. The denizens of the hive took to Twitter an...

Author Conor Fay

One little piece of history, RTÉ Broadcaster Myles Dungan picks out his favourite

The beech trees, the internet, Slenderman and me — a night time gander through the town-lands of Trim, Co. Meath.

Ivan the Terrible, the rogue of Soviet Film and Stalin’s problem with it

Come and See: an essential film in the World War II canon, but the toughest watch

1917 Revolution Centenary – 4 cultural artefacts of Soviet Russia which spit in the face of Stalin

Agent Provocateur: Nick Mullen versus the maddening moan of Twitter’s Leftist comrades