Our guest contributor this week is Irish writer and actor, Tara Flynn. I’ve never met a statue I trusted, and I’m not just talking about the way their cold eyes…
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An unexpected delivery causes Taryn de Vere to begin to untangle her memories of her father… LISTEN: for an audio version of this piece see our Life is Shorts podcast…
Fiona Hyde reflects on the unknown impressions we make on others… I’ll start this out with something negative about myself in order to temper your reaction. By ruining the purity…
Aisling Keenan‘s life is more colourful – literally – than most. Here, she writes about her neurological condition, synaesthesia, and interviews artist and photographer Rebecca Fahey, another synaesthete, about her…
Guest contributor Niamh Donnelly is a middle-distance athlete and long-time member of Dublin City Harriers Athletic Club. She competes in cross country, 800m, 1500m and occasionally the 4 x 400m relay. Here, she writes about how to be a woman in sport…
“I see his awful, sad, pain-filled life and it breaks me. It is an indescribable pain to know that your child is living such a horrific existence and causing harm wherever he goes. How could it not be – even partially – my fault? I’m his mother and that’s where blame goes isn’t it?” A mother writes anonymously about how a beloved son became a violent adult.
Life now feels at times like a film, but it isn’t. Fiona Hyde writes about her fractured new reality…
Our guest contributor this issue, Amy Clarkin, has lived with chronic illness for four and a half years. Here, she writes about how much of life in lockdown has long been her norm, that in some ways Covid-19 has made her feel the most ‘normal’ she has in a long time…
Taryn de Vere has been a fan of charity shops since she was a small child. Here, she examines the subversive artistry of pinnies.
Coming from a background of experience with mental illness, Sophie White has some tips for coping with depression in the time of Covid…