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Born in Buffalo New York in 1943, Jackson Carey Frank was 11 years old when he was injured in a fire at his elementary school in Cheektowaga. Jackson and his fellow classmates had been sitting in their music class when a furnace in the…

The Berwick fountain on Cork's Grand Parade is an iconic piece of street furniture on Leeside. The fountain was gifted to the city by (and named after) a Kildare man who died in a horrific accident 150 years ago. Walter Berwick was born…

In October 2016, Amitav Ghosh wrote a very long feature in the Guardian asking a very simple question: where is the fiction about climate change? In the years since, merely typing in “climate change fiction” brings up several helpful lists,…

Stories and creative writing change the conversations that people have. They impact on the society we live in and the culture we share. They open up people’s imaginations, ambitions, aspirations and knowledge. Stories matter. There are…

On St. Stephen’s Day in 1867, with darkness falling on Fota Island in Cork’s inner harbour, two gunners and their families sat down to a meal of Christmas Day left-overs. Their home, the island’s Martello Tower, housed a stock of guns and…

“This is a song called 'Failure'” says Ailbhe Reddy halfway through her set as part of London’s Folk & Roots Festival. “It’s about success.” An apt theme on a night that could have ended disastrously, but instead became one of triumph…

Borough Market was catapulted into the global eye early in June following a heinous act of terror. For some, it was their first time to hear of Borough Market, but for others Borough has held a place in their hearts for many years. Sarah…

Marika Hackman I’m Not Your Man There’s a naked intimacy to Marika Hackman’s latest record that’s hard to describe. I’m Not Your Man builds an awful lot around a gentle indie folk sound, layering on huge sections of sweeping sound and…

"Like today I was feeding the receipt machine out and trying to scribble down some lyrics that popped into my head..." There’s this cliché about musicians, working in coffee shops, scrawling down lyrics and ideas any chance they get at…

This weeks featured artist is David Murray, an Irish designer and illustrator currently living in London. I asked him about his illustrations that combine high fashion with hip hop and fantasy. How did you come to make these unique fashion…