TweetShare  Eggs Benedict A dish that consists of an English muffin, cut in half, topped with bacon, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. I believe it to be an American dish, although there are arguments from the French that they created it.  However, France is a country that has a baguette with no butter on its [...]

TweetShare 1. Belgium The first time I ever went to Belgium, having never been there before was the only reason I went. I liked it so much that when I came back to Cork I had several dreams about going back. In one dream I was taking the train from Cork to Dublin and had [...]

TweetShare J.G. Ballard Jim Ballard died in April, 2009, after losing the fiercest of battles: a tumultuous 3-year fight with cancer. I learned of his death through the cruelest of mediums: Facebook. A fellow champion of his prose had posted it only minutes before as a status update; I exited my browser and sat in [...]

TweetShare Pencils To make art these days means freedom to employ any pursuit as media; art can be made out of anything. My own work sometimes takes the form of meetings between people, the telling of stories, the collection of ephemera, the organization of feasting events, even the use of time to express meaning. Yet [...]

TweetShare Moray Bresnihan asked me if I’d like to do the honours with this feature for The Mutation. To be honest I hadn’t read any of the previous articles on the subject and he didn’t give me any real guidelines. I said I’d do it but I told him that a more suitable title for [...]

TweetShare 1. Bands on the Road Books written about or by bands, singers and musicians, really take my fancy. I love finding out how they got together and what drives them to keep going, the process involved in creating/recording their music, what inspires them etc. etc. Much more entertaining stuff than music magazines which seem [...]

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can”

An old paperback version sits on my shelf and every so often I will delve into it. Under Milk wood for me captures the true beauty of life and the wonderment of words, describing characters, with such detail. As quiet as a mouse, Bible black. I have it on vinyl too, the original BBC recording with the mighty Richard Burton, and a full Welsh cast. Everyone should have a copy.

TweetShare When Ronan first mooted this idea for a column I was delighted – even more so to get the chance to throw in my tuppence worth. So here it is my ‘Things I Keep Going Back to…” Before I begin I just want to clarify something. As someone who is constantly online and trawling [...]

TweetShare  This is a series where different people in the creative world show a few websites, books etc that refills their creative well when it’s running dry or acts as a midwife to ideas. It is not a comprehensive critical analysis of the featured item   Ronan Leonard, the creator of this feature, will take [...]