William Blake

I look out the Luan Gallery’s tall windows at the river Shannon. It moves westwards through Athlone like a slow, black brushstroke. Sunlight dances on the water, boats rock with its flow, swans glide downriver. I turn away and back to the…

Nowadays William Blake is celebrated as one of the greatest English artists and poets, but in his time he was ignored and dismissed by the artistic establishment. For all of his life he was tormented by visions; visions of the marvelous and…

In a video on the Brownbread mixtapes Youtube channel, Karl Parkinson reads his "Positivity Manifesto." In a torrent of words and imagery he moves from Walt Whitman to weight loss hypnotist Paul McKenna, to Nintendo Wii, referencing William…

Across three seasons, Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal became a critical success and developed a rabid cult following as it weaved a narrative of the darkest forms of romance, seduction, cruelty, and terrified beauty that nothing on network TV had…

Between the divinely inspired chaos roaring across the Middle East and the continuing roll call of the horrific abuses of the organised church across Europe, and Ireland in particular, religion has a bad rap. But in a time when young people…

It was the best of times it was the worst of times (and a time of anachronistic literary references apparently). The Enlightenment. Never before had mankind been so purposeful in its great venture to shine the clarity of reason upon the…