by charley | Jan 24, 2018 | Current Affairs, Uncategorized
“The Ones We Dream On…” “The hardest to think on are the ones who let it go, from sadness or worry or just not wanting to carry the weight of this life no more. They are the ones I dream on.”...
by charley | Dec 16, 2017 | Current Affairs
Christmas Greetings from Bono, Bob & the Banks Although written in mid-November, this is from the December 2017 issue of Chicago’s ‘Irish American News.’ They’re worse than ever they were, the bankers; worse than ever. More arrogant; more...
by charley | Nov 25, 2017 | Current Affairs
‘Criminals and Mongrel Wretches’: The Anti-Irish Sentiments of H. P. Lovecraft From the Chicago ‘Irish American News’, November 2017 Well now, I’m not the better for that! In fact, I’m almost sorry that I came across this correspondence from 1918/20. You...
by charley | Sep 23, 2017 | Current Affairs
Shearing the Sheep and the Blood Sacrifice Chicago’s Irish American News, October 2017 It’s probably just another sad example of my irredeemably perverse sense of humour, but one of the most amusing images I’ve come across recently is in a comic book where a panel...
by charley | Aug 23, 2017 | Current Affairs
The Narrow Minded Bigotry Doesn’t Come from Kevin Myers… Irish American News, September 2017 Well, of course, if there was any REAL Justice in this sad old world at all, then Irish journalist Kevin Myers would not only have been sacked from his position...
by charley | Jul 30, 2017 | Current Affairs
Loveable, Laughing Leo and Empty Cant Taken from the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ for August, 2017 I received a few nice emails on the back of last month’s piece, Robbery with a Fountain Pen. They are always welcome and many thanks. The graphic novel I...
