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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• From Landscape to Manscape - Eduardo Chillida and Fuerteventura's Tindaya Mountain

  It’s big; it’s a thumb-in-your eye assault on a virgin landscape, but is it art? Well, yes, it is actually, and that’s where the problem lies The late Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida envisaged creating a monumental hollowed out space in the heart of Mt. Tindaya, a project that would be his legacy. For years the project has been shelved due to controversy and ecological concerns. Now this Pharaonic project could bring economic salvation to Fuerteventura, in Spain's Canary Islands, but at what price?

  
  
• The ongoing environmental disaster of 9/11.

  The attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001 signalled not only the start of the war on terror, but also the start of an environmental disaster, consistently underestimated by US Government officials, that continues to affect the health and safety of New York's Citizens.

  
  
• From the Armalite to the Strawberry Smoothie - 21st Century Ireland, North and South.

  By rights Henry McDonald, born and raised in the Catholic working class district of the Markets in Belfast, should have grown up Republican, Nationalist and Catholic. Instead he grew up an afficionado of punk rock, football, and international politics. McDonald, biographer of Ulster Unionist David Trimble, and the Observer's Ireland Editor, discusses with Three Monkeys Online the alternative narratives of identity in Ireland, and those increasingly outdated ones that dominated the last century.

  
  
• Lovely Seaside Girls. James Joyce’s Musical Interludes

  Tom Brace takes a historical look at some of the music, and culture, that influenced Dublin writer James Joyce when writing his masterpiece Ulysses.

  
  
• The most irresponsible occupation. Liz Jensen, author of The Ninth life of Louis Drax talks about writing.

  With The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, her fifth novel, Liz Jensen seems to be getting the recognition and profile that her varied and inventive work deserves. The book is currently in the process of being turned into a film by literary director Anthony Minghella. Three Monkeys Online discuss the book, the influence of cinema on novelists, and a host of other issues with Liz Jensen.