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letter from the EDITORS
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Musings (And The Like) with Adam Donnelly.
MYSTIC MITTENS
The inimitable Adam Donnelly sporting his latest facial expression
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A R T S A N D C U LT U R E – NEWS AND EVENTS LINGO Festival
Dublin Book Festival: The Rising Generation
Investigations 2016
Halloween at the Lighthouse Cinema
Dublin Theatre Festival: The Father
Folk artist Sive will play at the Dublin Book Festival next month
What’s Hot & What’s Not HOT:
NOT:
That time before the “Assignment Anxiety” starts:
Murder clowns:
Solange:
Niall Horan :
Black Mirror:
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Harambe jokes:
OTwo//Travel
Youths on the streets of Catania
Caffè Curtigghiu Mount Etna towering over the Catanian skyline
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OTwo//Food
FOODSOC:
Dancing to the Meat: Students gather in the Astra Hall for Food Soc’s Disco Brunch
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OTwo//Food
Restaurant Review:
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OTwo//Games
ZoĂŤ Jellicoe
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OTwo//Games
INSIDE
Hands On - For Honor
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OTwo//Film&TV
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OTwo//Film&TV
Scarlett Johanssen in the 2017 production of Ghost in the Shell
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OTwo//Film&TV
Review: Mattress Men
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OTwo//Creative Writing
C OLD AM BIT IO N
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OTwo//Creative Writing
Persephone by Robyn Gilmour I hear them humming through the branches of the Wyche Elm. I think about the old neighbourhood cats, once stroked and fattened, curled up in its roots;
Don’t look in the Mirror
Designated Guardian
by Ezra Maloney
by Ilena Brady
2am His body had betrayed him He knows this by looking in the mirror Self-realisation or suicide Hairs clogged in the shower drain Matted clumps vaguely pubic
It is 7am. They are all and gone everything on me.
hoping despite it all that things work out
In the bathroom Dragon’s breath He sinks down into it for the birds nesting in the Disappears branches above. His body had betrayed him They absorb the eggs that He could feel it in the fall and sleep easy growths on his chest Sacks of meat placed knowing what is in store mistakenly (a cruel cosmic for the restless souls above. joke) Maybe one day I’ll be content to rot away under its leaves, the cool soil; having said my piece, having wasted it all. And return the following spring to warm the leaves, the water,
In all the worldyou exist. In all around- your absence persists. And with all my tattered senses and shaken fists. No poetry, No joke, No writing at all. Nothing in the whole world will make this better.
Heavier than hell Eyes Half shut To keep the demons out Rotten thoughts sizzle on The paltry drizzle Of a shower Can’t dampen them His body betrays him More and more each passing day.
the space between your shoulders.
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OTwo//Matthew Todd
How to Be Gay and Happy: An Interview with Matthew Todd
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Matthew Todd speaking on ITV
The Sun, London, 14th October 1985
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V
1985
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OTwo//Music
REVIVAL OR RENAISSANCE?
Grime artist Skepta
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OTwo//Music
Striking a Chord: Heathers performing for MusicSoc in the Fitzgerald Chamber
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DUBLIN GIG GUIDE October 13th - Death Grips - The Academy
October 28th - Kerri Chandler - District 8
October 29th - Augustines - Vicar Street
November 3rd-5th - Metropolis - RDS
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ALBUM REVIEWS Sirens
Acoustic Recording 1998-2016
22, A Million
WHAT ARE YOU
LISTENING TO?
Arthur McBride Planxty Conor Viscardi, President
Not Letting Go – Tinie Tempah feat. Jess Glynne Lexi Kilmartin, Education Officer
Sugar Man (Vanilla Ace Remix) - Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP Luke Fitzpatrick, Campaigns & Communications Officer
Best Of You – Foo Fighters
Cian Casey, Graduate Officer
I Don’t Even Know Who – Little Green Cars Róisín Ní Mhara , Welfare Officer
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OTwo//Fashion
What in the Name of
Diva?
Om Diva
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OTwo//Fashion
You Must Be Joking
Vetements DHL T-shirt
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OTwo//Fashion
D E S I G N E R S P OT L I G H T:
Maria Lola Roche’s new collection of street wear
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OTwo//Arts&Lit
ART IST
Orson Scott Card
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OTwo//Arts&Lit
Print Journalism on Life Support?
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OTwo//Arts&Lit
OBSERVE THE SONS:
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme performed in the Abbey Theatre
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FATAL FOURWAY Worst Halloween Experience
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A PE R T UR E /photography//expressions/
Joanna O’Malley
Ryan O’Donnell
Camille Lombard Nikhil Wali
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