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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Taking the gun out of Irish politics - again

  After the murder of unarmed Belfast man, Robert McCartney, by the I.R.A., Sinn Féin have once more come under intense public pressure to deliver on their declared intention of "taking the gun out of Irish politics". In the words of Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, we have reached a "historic moment". Students of Irish History will recall a number of such moments in the past. Feargal McGarry compares and contrasts the path to constitutional politics taken by Republicans Eamonn De Valera and Gerry Adams.

  
  
• Avoiding the Question - the continuing peak oil production debate. An interview with Robert Hirsch, Author of Peak Oil Report for U.S. Department of Energy

  In March 2005 the US government quietly published the findings of scientists commissioned by the Department of Energy to investigate the issue of peak oil production, and its impact. The issue is finally making it's way into the main stream press, but clear answers are hard to find, as demonstrated by this interview with one of the report's authors, Robert Hirsch.

  
  
• A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry in interview

  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 taboo topics of Irish history - the participation by Irish Catholics in the First World War. In interview with Mark Harkin, Barry talks about the interaction between history and fiction, the social responsibilities of writers, and, above all, the forgotten generation of Irish soldiers who fought in the British Army in Flanders.

  
  
• The Electric Michelangelo - Man Booker shortlist author Sarah Hall in interview.

  Her first novel Haweswater won the Commonwealth prize for a first novel, while her second, The Electric Michelangelo, was one of the shortlist titles for this year's Man Booker Prize. Sarah Hall in interview with Three Monkeys Online talks about her novel, about Literary prizes and tattooing.

  
  
• Books by and an Interview with: Mary Midgley

  Mary Midgley is one of Britain's leading philosophers. Highly critical both of religious fundamentalism, and at the same time blind faith in 'sociobiology', Midgley recently spoke to Three Monkeys Online. On the table for discussion were the role of philosophy, and the urgent need to change mankind's vision of the universe.