Worried by the ever-increasing trend of charity organisers to use street teams of insistent fundraisers, regular Three Monkeys Online writer, Mark Harkin, decides on a very personal form of defence. ...
Irish playwright, poet, and novelist, Sebastian Barry has long approached the obscured sides of Irish history in his work. With his latest novel, A Long Long Way, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, he has confidently approached one of the great ...
What's a Waterford man doing, going crazy, at the Manchester United Vs Liverpool match at Old Trafford? Getting in touch with his inner psycho? Mark Harkin lets us in to the mindset of a die hard supporter....
What tangled web will he weave, and will he get the girl? More to the point, is it worth watching? Three Monkeys Online goes to see Spiderman, the sequel....
Ireland prides itself on its drink culture, believing the Irish pub to be the envy of the known world, but in reality the choice of drink available is limited, particularly in relation to beer. Mark Harkin goes above and beyond the call of duty, to find a...
Escaping the dissapointment of Euro 2004, where so many highly paid stars failed to deliver, Mark Harkin goes to watch the regional final of Europe's oldest, and, some would say most exciting, Field sport - Hurling. Are there lessons to be learned from th...
Alex Bellos has written the fascinating Futebol: The Brazilian way of life and was a latin american correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer. Here, in interview with Mark Harkin, he gives a South American perspective on Euro 2...
Professor of Psychology at Manchester University, author, and resident Psychologist on Channel Four's Big Brother, Geoffrey Beattie has recently written an inciteful memoir of his Ulster Protestant upbringing. In interview with Three Monkeys Online...
Sean Walsh has attempted, what for many remains impossible, to film Joyce's novel Ulysses. Mark Harkin spoke to the director for Three Monkeys Online....
Buddhism has become both a fashion statement and an accepted religion in the West. Mark Harkin reviews Re-enchantment - Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West, a book that details how the religion initally made ground in the west....
Name All The Animals: A memoir of the child left behind - by Alison Smith, reviewed for Three Monkeys Online by Mark Harkin....
Pushing the boundaries, Mark Harkin jumps out of a plane for Three Monkeys Online. In the process he tries to fathom the appeal of Parachuting....
With the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland late last year a shift in power was finally confirmed, with the Democratic Unionist Party topping the polls, and with Sinn Fein eclipsing the ailing SDLP. Does this signify an end to the peace process? Three...
Every month ThreeMonkeys highlights a classic album from the past. In the first of the series we look at The Rolling Stones Let it Bleed...
Students of Anglo-Irish literature and Irish history will be interested to learn that their studies could be markedly different were it not for the phenomenon of Asperger’s syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism. Professor Michael Fitzgerald from t...
James Joyce was perhaps the most influential and important writer of the 20th Century, yet outside of the Universities he remains widely known but little read. Mark Harkin interviews Joyce Lecturer and Enthusiast Senator David Norris....
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