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“Is it hard to see death when it is disguised and tricked out in the surface trappings of life?” These words were written by a journalist named John Healy in 1967 in reference to the decline of his native Charlestown in Mayo over the…

Whenever you read anything, you are made conscious of your class. This is especially true if you have a working-class background. I was struck by this recently while reading Alberto Manguel’s essay collection Into the Looking Glass Wood in…

NO ENCORE returns. It's a jam-packed episode as the boys welcome the resurrected Super Extra Bonus Party to the studio and tackle all of the exciting new happenings in the music world including A Perfect Circle's rather strange new…

Treading the fine line between past and present, This Week, in History is a round-up of the latest historical events and findings which continue to impact the world today. This week, we look at Birmingham Bombings, the History Channel's…

News International Literature Festival Dublin This year's ILFD wrapped up on the 29th May. This year's event had some huge names, such as Ruby Wax, Paula Meehan, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford and Werner Herzog, as well as our very own…

One more time with feeling - NO ENCORE turns the clock back to run the rule over a set of Irish albums from a given year. 1997 takes centre stage on this particular edition, as an excellent panel debates the merits and demerits of what…

This week, the Irish Times published an article that included a glossary of racial slurs and fascist ideologies. They then published another article. And then another. And then another. And probably another by the time The Week on Twitter…

It’s Holy Fuck by name and by nature this week on a feature-length episode as NO ENCORE chats to Brian Borcherdt of the profanely-monikered Toronto electronica outfit mere moments before a very raucous indeed Dublin headliner. With Colm…

It is the duty of the opposition to bring checks and balances to bear upon whatever government is the incumbent. Parties that fall short of a majority during elections are meant to become our protectors – alerting us to any misdeed or…

Hi Mark, I read your article in the Irish Times on Wednesday. We are nominally in the same position - straight white guys trying to navigate conversations about feminism and sexism – and I see that you don’t want to be shut out of the…