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  • The Magnus Archives: Elevating the Eldritch

    “Make your Statement, face your Fear” As of late, I have been revisiting one of my favourite podcasts, The Magnus Archives. Re-experiencing a piece of media always presents an interesting perspective. In this case, I found my attention drawn to how this particular story works, the ways it constructs its horror. Horror especially is an…

  • Defying the Edifice of linear History in Academic Research

    This posts reflects on two research seminars held at University College Cork in November 2022. The first of the two took place November 2nd, delivered by Dr. Heather Laird and titled “Commemoration and Decolonisation – Reflections on the Centenary of 1922.” Dr. Michael G. Cronin presented the second, titled “Hopeful and Homoerotic Spaces in Irish…

  • Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistras Flying: An Exercise in Self-Flagellation and Doubt 

    Can we extricate ourselves from the society we live in? How can someone create art in a commercial society? Gordon Comstock lives in rebellion. He seeks to defy “the money-god”(48). Yet money torments and poisons his every thought. He wishes to write creatively, free from moneyed ideas of success. Yet his squalid poverty embitters him,…