Claire Hennessey

I want to love this movie. I need you to know this. I have a notebook and pen in front of me (how analogue) and I am here, at the gorgeous Light House Cinema for the GAZE Film Festival, with my reviewer hat on but also my fannish heart…

Welcome to Yet Another Article About International Women’s Day! (To answer the inevitable question: International Men’s Day takes place on the 19th of November.) The theme for IWD 2019 is #BalanceForBetter, a call for gender balance (let’s…

With the new academic year now in full swing and university students both fresh and jaded settling (back) into seminars and tutorials, lectures and labs, it’s an ideal time to talk about the Irish campus novel – this year more so than…

“For the true bookworm,” journalist Lucy Mangan declares, “life doesn’t really begin until you get hold of your first book.” Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading is, as Mangan, acknowledges, “necessarily incomplete”. Now in her early…