Interview with Ríon Hannora
Fashion editor Justine Lepage chats with Ríon Hannora, a Cork-born emerging designer and stylist who is all about creativity, sustainability, and breaking the norms of gender and age in the fashion industry. The fashion rebel tells Motley all about styling CMAT, her unconventional design process and her adorable “scrap babies”. Rion’s identity as a designer […]
Resistance in Late-Capitalist Art
Entertainment editor Seán Enda Donnelly talks about the nature of art and entertainment in our modern society through the lens of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism (2009) and transgressive art. In 1848, a year wracked by revolution throughout the globe and in their native Germany, philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto. The […]
Blind Date
Recently Deputy Features editor Sarah O’Mahony sent James and David on a blind date to Alchemy café, Barracks Street. On route they faced the aftermath of the tornado that hit the street that week but were met by the lovely Bev once inside. Will it be a whirlwind romance for the pair or a cold […]
Tate’s Army: an Analysis of the Growing Discontent Towards Feminism Amongst Young Men
Deputy Current Affairs Editor Tiarnan O’Rourke takes a look at the rise of angry young men on the internet and what factors drive them to beacons like Tate. When scouring the internet for information regarding the plight of women many articles will come up. Statistics will appear that discuss the high rates of violence against […]
Ramadan and Resistance
Contributing Writer Baneen Talpur writes about Ramadan and how religion can help us make sense of the world. It is becoming harder for young people to identify as religious in Ireland. Most of the people I know are either atheists or agnostics. Science is advancing at an astronomical pace, and with the rise in education […]
Poetry- The Call in the Night
The Call in the Night – By James Carroll They say you never forget your first First love, first heartbreak, first kiss.. But you were my first everything. I’m not scared of the dark anymore Because you took me apart in broad daylight I held you in my arms like a god could hold the sun […]