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What’s In A Name?

By Enda Kenneally on November 22, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

If you stand in any classroom in Madrid, and possibly Spain, a strange thing is happening.

Talking Terraces: The Best 3 Spots in Madrid

By Enda Kenneally on November 20, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

The terrace culture is Madrid.

The Irish Students Who Brought Football to Northern Spain

By Enda Kenneally on November 16, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
Irish students football

With thanks to Jose Miguel Morales; without his help, this article wouldn’t have been possible.

Satori Identity Explorer/What I learned about travelling from Jack Kerouac

By Enda Kenneally on November 15, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
Jack Kerouac

Satori identity. This was an alien concept to me, until I came across Kerouac. Jack Kerouac’s book Satori in Paris is a tangled mess of ideas, references and internalized in-jokes, which is to […]

Satori: Identity Explorer/What I learned about travelling from Jack Kerouac

By Enda Kenneally on November 15, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s book Satori in Paris is a tangled mess of ideas, references and internalized in-jokes, which is to say, in-jokes he shares with himself, rather than with a drinking buddy or cabal of […]

Summer 1969: Seamus Heaney in Madrid

By María Correas on November 9, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
Seamus Heaney in Madrid

It was by pressing hard against a pen, and not guitar strings, that his fingers bled.

Surreal Ideas & Irish Stories in Madrid

By Enda Kenneally on November 7, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )
Irish Stories in Madrid

It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… let’s go exploring! Calvin & Hobbes

Lavapiés Stories: Home to You and Me

By Enda Kenneally on November 3, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have seen someone piss on a car in Lavapiés, but it’s another yarn in a list of Lavapiés stories. This wash feet barrio […]

Lavapiés is home to you and me

By Enda Kenneally on November 3, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have seen someone piss on a car in Lavapiés. This wash feet barrio does exactly that; uncharacteristic raindrops, characteristic pissing from homeless people, […]

Words Perched on Branches: The Language of Beauty

By María Correas on October 29, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
language of beauty

There are as many languages in the world as visions of the realities we live in.

Take a bow Damien Duff: Beating the Spanish

By Enda Kenneally on October 25, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Take a bow, Damien Duff. Damien Duff has been a lot of things: Irish flair player and captain, a title winner with Chelsea, a losing Europa League finalist with Fulham, a local […]

How Damien Duff Terrorized the Spanish

By Enda Kenneally on October 25, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Damien Duff has been a lot of things: Irish flair player and captain, a title winner with Chelsea, a losing Europa League finalist with Fulham, a local hero with Shamrock Rovers, underage […]

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