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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 […]

Madrid’s Strange Tea Secrets

By Enda Kenneally on October 19, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
Madrid's Exotic Tea Secrets

To drink in Madrid’s strange tea secrets, let’s start with a quote: I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

Madrid’s Exotic Tea Secrets

By Enda Kenneally on October 19, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
Madrid's Exotic Tea Secrets

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

3 Alternative Ways to Learn About Irish Soldiers and the Spanish Civil War

By Enda Kenneally on October 17, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )
Irish soldiers in the Spanish Civil War

Irish soldiers and the Spanish Civil War are deeply connected.

From Anfield to the Atotxa: A Look at John Aldridge’s Time at Real Sociedad

By Enda Kenneally on October 13, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
John Aldridge Real Sociedad

Liam Brady, Ian Harte, and Kevin Doyle share a bond of nationality and trade: they are all Irish and they were all professional footballers who played ‘abroad’, which is to say in […]

On Track – A Short Story

By Enda Kenneally on October 12, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
on track short story

Then we raised a glass to JFK and a thousand more besides When I got back to my empty room I suppose I must have cried

‘Turn’ – A Poem about Emigration

By Enda Kenneally on October 11, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )
Poem

Poetry is the art of the in-between, that space between places and identities. For me, that place is that pocket of knowing between Ireland and Spain, of home and home.

Ireland & Spain in Myth

By Enda Kenneally on October 11, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
Ireland & Spain in Myth

My journey into our shared past began with a poem.

Harpists in Fraiser & Popular Culture

By María Correas on October 8, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

The harp would appear to be an instrument embodied with heavenly powers. And we can find harpists in Fraiser and general culture..

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