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James O’Sullivan (@jamescosullivan
) is Lecturer in Digital Arts & Humanities at University College Cork. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University. His writing has appeared in such venues as The Irish Times and The Conversation. As a poet, James has been published in some of Ireland’s most respected venues, including The SHOp, Cyphers, and Southword. His most recent collection of poetry, Courting Katie, is due from Salmon Poetry in 2017. James is the Founding Editor of New Binary Press. For more, see josullivan.org
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Being Faithless

James O Sullivan Jan 31, 2020 1

I have been faithless for the entirety of my adulthood. As a teenager growing up in the Parkhead tradition, I carried Catholicism like a banner, believing in God because he was our god, the Irish god, something that our postcolonial…

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Homemakers of Ireland, I salute you

James O Sullivan Aug 3, 2017 0

This month marked my return home after a few years abroad, and as the absent one does when the change of job gives them a bit of breathing space, I spent some time with my mother. It’s hard to situate oneself on the class spectrum,…

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We Are All Complicit in the Catholic Church’s Corruption

James O Sullivan Mar 24, 2017 0

The greatest trick the Church ever played was convincing the Irish that it wasn’t dictating our lives. Catholicism has a way of forcing itself upon the Irish psyche, but it goes about its work with such subtlety that we still react to its…