Many years ago, I was asked a make or break question at the end of an interview. It was for what was to be my first language teaching job.
Double-Justified: Gaeilge & Self-Realization
The Troublesome Irish Refugees in Spain
This is the story of the troublesome Irish Refugees in Spain. Immigration and refugees are two interlinked concepts that seem unmistakably modern.
The Troublesome Irish in Spain
Immigration and refugees are two interlinked concepts that seem unmistakably modern.
What’s In A Name?
If you stand in any classroom in Madrid, and possibly Spain, a strange thing is happening.
Talking Terraces: The Best 3 Spots in Madrid
The terrace culture is Madrid.
Satori Identity Explorer/What I learned about travelling from 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
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
It was by pressing hard against a pen, and not guitar strings, that his fingers bled.
Irish Slice of Madrid 