The Hives: Still Sweden’s Masters of Garage Rock The Hives have been the antithesis of familiarity breeding contempt for over two and a half decades now. Their latest offering, The Hives Forever ...

Connection to Place will be held at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, on September Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, 2025.

I first became aware of John Doran during his memorable performance in the Tony Cantwell led “Bureau de Change” Eurovision parody song contest. Therein, each performer represented a country and ...

How can you put a fresh spin on Superman? As a character, he’s always been little more than an overstretched metaphor, representing every hope of the white Christian America in which he was created.

Gertrude Elizabeth Blood was born in May 1857, the child of a wealthy landowner named Edmund Maghlin Blood and his wife Mary. The Bloods were old-school plantation grandees, with the Irish branch ...

Netflix users at the beginning of 2021 were justifiably confused when they noticed two new movies, both Chinese fantasy films, and both with almost identical names. One was The Yin Yang Master, while ...

The video game industry is booming, but it repeatedly comes under scrutiny for what appears to be the persistent sexualisation of female characters. Many critics have assertively spoken out about how ...

Prehistoric cave paintings are among the world’s first-known and least-understood works of art. At least two hundred painted caves, some dating to as early as 30,000 BCE, have been found throughout ...

Henry Prince was born in 1811 in the city of Bath. His family were well off enough to own property in Jamaica – property which included slaves, as his mother was compensated when slavery was abolished ...

One fun aspect of watching foreign shows is learning about the folklore of other lands; whole unfamiliar mythologies. One of these is the fashion in Korean drama for the last few years of shows about ...

When Charles II was restored to the throne of England in 1660, it was clear that things were not going to be the same as they had been before the revolution that had toppled his father from the throne ...

The Back-to-the-Land movement emerged from the post-Woodstock era of the late-1960s and early-1970s, supported by a mostly idealistic group of people who wanted to live life more simply. Although the ...