The Best Room
Some Irish hate our past. One who shall not be named has made his latest Quixotic attack: it is on the old …
Reading the works of the Poets Higgins
I have recently become the happy owner of the book on Cloncoose poet Pat Higgins, a folk poet of the time when …
Shaggers Guide to Scotland – at the Cúirt lecture meeting Irvine Welsh
Meeting Irvine Welsh at the book signing after his lecture at the Cuirt Festival here in Galway was quite an experience. I …
Stopped Clocks and All That – The Kildare Street Standoff and Merrion Square Rollover – right2water Dec 10 protests
Beyond the wire A photo posted by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on Dec 12, 2014 at 8:05am PST Kevin Higgins is a writer …
SLAM in Kilkenny – The All Ireland Poetry Slam in Irelands Quirkiest Pub
The Hole in the Wall pub in Kilkenny has to be one of – if not the – quirkiest pub in Kilkenny. …
Bitter Bards Begrudgery
into the open of the war between those who, exam day, remembered and wrote down what the teacher told them and those …
Cute Hoor Councillors vs Artists Minding their Own Arses – Debating the One Per Cent For the Arts Scheme
The issue of public funding for the arts, in a time of austerity, has been a hot topic in the bars and …
Dignified Silence
Dignified silence on the broad issue of abortion is not something that I am known for, has led to accusations of sexism …
Poets, Principles and Personalities – The Biggins of the Poetry World Spouts Forth
The principled “writer” Kevin Higgins, well, he is at it again. Readers of these pages will remember the “principled” campaign he ran …
Ethics, Official Images, Artists Ego’s and the Funding Issue
Writers often make their living from festival readings, and sales of their books at events. To gain such access to earn such …
Egregious Idiot
Back then David Conway used to regularly bait the Labour councillors at council meetings by making mention of “the egregious Mr Higgins”. …
Quills at Dawn – Poets Piques and Politics
Poets and their piques when pickled in politics Makes a soup sour to the taste Explosions of emotions cause rages on pages …
What the Virgin at Knock Really Would Say If She Could Speak
My Son, he is Angry, with those who done wrong, Especially those who done so while hiding behind His name, God will …