After spending 3 months and over 15,000 words pondering how 2 writers I greatly admire reflect upon what it means to be an artist in their collective works, I began to think about myself as an artist. For a while I considered myself a scholar, not an artist, but I soon realized how limiting this... Continue Reading →

Last week, August 29th I made a trip to Cork to submit the MA thesis I have been working on all this summer. First and foremost I had to have it printed and bound. A simple process really; after handing the friendly staff member at the printing shop my USB stick I waited for half... Continue Reading →

Once again it has been a while since my last post as I have been working hard to finish my thesis. After completing the first draft near the end of July I knew I couldn't afford to become lazy, as the most difficult part of the work was still to come: The editing! I write... Continue Reading →

"Give me problems, give me work...I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation"- Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is to be the first in a series of posts where I write about the various genres I have loved throughout my life (any excuse to fanboy).... Continue Reading →

Hello folks! It's been a few weeks since my last post (did you miss me?) but I've been quite busy with my thesis (remember the thesis, the whole reason I started this blog? That!) To cut a long story short I had a few epiphanies (Joyce might have been proud) and managed to write a... Continue Reading →

Once more a happy Pride Month to everyone under the rainbow. For the second time this month I returned to the capital, this time for Ireland's biggest Pride parade. This was my first time at Dublin Pride having attended Cork Pride for the last two years. Being part of this community has helped me to... Continue Reading →

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about"- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Who is your favourite writer? It is a fairly straightforward question. A scholar who has spent years of their life studying countless works by dozens of authors... Continue Reading →

Good evening folks (or whenever you are reading this, I'm a night owl). Just in case the title didn't do its job, this is a little progress report on how my thesis is going. We are entering into the last week of June (wow!) and I am pleased to say I am keeping on schedule.... Continue Reading →

James Joyce's magnum opus Ulysses is famous for its length and difficulty, yet all the events of the book play out over the course of a single day, June 16th. That date is now celebrated around the world as "Bloomsday" (named in honor of the main character Leopold Bloom) and is particularly embraced by lovers... Continue Reading →

The short answer is "Yes, quite a few" but these blog posts would be a lot more frequent if the short answers were good enough. (Side note: I plan on posting at least once a week). Today, many students like myself go straight into postgraduate study upon finishing their undergraduate degrees and others often intend... Continue Reading →