As the final few minutes of the BBC dramatization of Sally Rooney’s Normal People came to an end I was reminded of the bitter sweet feeling of leaving Dublin behind. No matter whether it was my own reality of leaving or the end of the amazing Glen Hansard staring film Once, the cliff hanger of… Read More
In the words of them there Beastie Boys, ‘Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten, From the Battery to the top of Manhattan, Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin, Black, White, New York you make it happen.’ So I am on my way back from my fifth visit to New York in just over ten years, every time I… Read More