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David O'Donoghue 8 posts 0 comments

David O'Donoghue is a student and freelance writer from Co. Kerry. His writing has appeared in the Irish Independent, Film Ireland, and he is the Political Editor for Campus.ie. He writes short fiction and poetry and was the 2015 winner of the Kerry's Eye short story competition for his story 'Gethsemane' as well as being shortlisted for Hot Press' 2015 Write Here Write Now creative writing competition.

Film

Eco-Horror, Climate Change and Alex Garland’s Annihilation

David O'Donoghue Oct 14, 2017 0

Alex Garland's upcoming film Annihilation is going to be your next sci-fi obsession. Having read Jeff Vandermeer’s book a couple of years ago, it is a mysterious story full of intrigue and suspense, where monstrous things lurk just out of…

Music

Wu Tang Style | Kung Fu metaphors & Black empowerment in the lyrics of the Wu Tang Clan

David O'Donoghue Dec 18, 2015 0

Straight Outta Compton, the raw bombastic retelling of the NWA's rise to gangsta rap stardom took the world by storm critically and commericially. As a result, people all over the world have been reflecting on hip-hop's journey from niche…

Conflict Poetry

Pablo Neruda’s Poetic Struggle for Social Justice

David O'Donoghue Sep 25, 2015 0

September 11 was the anniversary of a violent event which brought about the modern world: the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. While the more recent attack on the World Trade Centre was a horrific tragedy…

Bonus PoetryStuff

Sympathy for the Devil: W.B. Yeats and fascism

David O'Donoghue Sep 12, 2015 0

When we slot figures neatly onto the plinths of our national pantheon, the heroic status we make often require some scrubbing before they are fit to be viewed by the public. Figures of national renown are scrubbed clean of their more…

Literature Features

Spirituality in the writing of Jack Kerouac

David O'Donoghue Aug 13, 2015 0

“It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s.” As a precocious 14 year old, I idolised Bob Dylan, so this Dylan quote on the back of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road was what made me snap it up in my early teens. My computer broke…

Bonus PoetryStuff

Rumi and Rahman Baba give a nuanced view of the Islamic Faith

David O'Donoghue Jul 16, 2015 0

‘Islam’ is a hot button word in the West right now. A mere mention of the world’s fastest growing faith is likely to prompt mudslinging about everything from the foreign policy of the United States to women’s rights. In a time when, for so…

Bonus PoetryStuff

Rainer Rilke and William Blake: Poetry and Reassessing Spirituality

David O'Donoghue Jun 15, 2015 0

Between the divinely inspired chaos roaring across the Middle East and the continuing roll call of the horrific abuses of the organised church across Europe, and Ireland in particular, religion has a bad rap. But in a time when young people…

Bonus PoetryStuff

“My rhymes more than their rhyming tell” | Magic, ghosts and W.B. Yeats

David O'Donoghue May 19, 2015 0

As his 150th anniversary comes around, many eyes have turned to re-examining the work of the great Irish poet W. B. Yeats. But in many ways a key area of his life has been overlooked: magic. Yeats’ interest in the supernatural and the…