identity

Multinational companies like to appear somewhat local in each of the countries they are present in. This can take many forms, especially in the advertising that the business uses to communicate with the wider community. What do these ads…

On the week that saw the world said goodbye to civil rights hero John Hume, today’s guest and topic feel especially apt. Maev McDaid is a Derry woman in London, completing a PhD on retired Irish people in that city, as well as being very…

Back in 2003, a schoolboy sitting at his home computer was messing around on the internet and, without fully realising it, opened a window for the Irish language. That window was Vicipéid, and seventeen years later it is still letting light…

Most of us have a very clear idea of what an Irish American is and have an overview of the community's journey from the Famine to the White House. The Irish community in Britain is a different and far more complicated story, however. And…

Sarah Devereux’s debut Fringe Festival show, My Fringe Show, is an intimate, irreverent, and deeply personal exploration of modern-day female identity. Upon arriving at Le Fringe Hairdressers on Crow Street, one is welcomed into a darkly…

Throughout the years, Miley Cyrus has been an undeniable presence in pop culture. Starting out as one of the key members of the Disney channel troop, we all watched in anticipation. What was she going to do next? Follow the likes of Britney…

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills fits neatly, in many ways, into the criteria set out by postmodernism. The series grapples with the idea of the constructed self, and the illusion of identity. It also raises questions about the state of…

As the film title suggests, things get worse for the seven characters with dark histories who seem to randomly collide in 1969 at the Lake Tahoe El Royale Hotel—a decaying former favorite of Vegas’ rat pack. The gimmicky hotel sits half in…

I’m a blow-in and have been for the past thirty six years. So like all migrants nobody is aware of my pedigree. Or lack thereof. Thankfully such concerns have never featured greatly on my radar. I grew up in a family where you made your…

Something galleries and Germans are not known for is humour. This is a prejudiced assumption for sure, fuelled by European country profiling for the latter and synonymizing anything ‘artsy’ with pretentiousness for the former. There are…