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Oasis remain one of the most influential bands in modern music. Here’s why their return to the stage still feels historic.
Two Irish television writers discuss their participation in the European-wide VR writers' room, Words Across Europe.
Writer-Director Gemma Creagh sat down with HeadStuff to talk about her directorial debut, Conveyance, a horror-comedy short about a couple trying to navigate Ireland’s housing market. After viewing a ...
Thomas Caffrey reviews Celine Song's mis-marketed rom comMaterialists, which features little romance and even less comedy.
Have you ever wondered why your dog’s ears prick up even when you hear nothing? You sit reading the newspaper when Toby runs towards the door barking as if his best friend is outside. It could be ...
Julie d’Aubigny in her opera-singing years – one of the few pictures of her from her lifetime that survives. Mark Twain once wrote “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged ...
Diogenes was one of the more eccentric of the Greek philosophers. Homeless and irascible, scandalous and obscene, he still inspired later generations.
Joseph Fouché was a bloody-handed architect of the French Terror; but he avoided any backlash for it. There's always employment for a man without scruples.
The Birth of Venus: How Botticelli focused more on the idealism of the female figure, along with mythology and symbolism in his secular pieces.
Beatriz Kimpa Vita was a charismatic preacher in the Kingdom of Kongo with a radical doctrine - that Mary and Jesus had been been black Kongolese Africans.
Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright and Marie Curie scholar, works in the digital humanities and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and ...
With the remake of The Magnificent Seven hitting our screens, Stephen Porzio looks at the legacy of Sergio Corbucci, the legendary western director.