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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Seventeenth Century Dutch Art – Recording the Visual World

  Pictures record the world but they are inexorably bound up with the perception of the world by the artist. The emergence of the Dutch Republic was one of the key national historical events of the 17^th century and the intense realism of painting from this time shows the desire to record not only the visual world but also the collective mindset of the nation.

  
  
• The Final Word: Fictional spaces, Death and Literature. Mervyn Peake and the Gormenghast trilogy

  Death as a fictionalised experience allies itself harmoniously with literary fiction. Both are spaces of invention and both seek to fill what is essentially an ever-present void of abstraction. A perfect example of the marriage between death and literary fiction is the Gormenghast Trilogy by writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake.

  
  
• The Glorious and Immortal Memory. Commemoration at the Dublin Statue of King William of Orange.

  Trinity College Dublin, has, in the past, been associated in the popular perception with Unionism and the Protestant Ascendency, and thus with a certain loyalty to the British Crown. Where better then, than in College Green, to erect a statue to King William of Orange, the hero of Protestant Ireland. But politics and commemoration are never easy matters in Ireland, as Tom O'Carolan recounts.

  
  
• "Tumultuous, prolonged applause ending in ovation. All rise." Khrushchev's "Secret Report" and Poland

  In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, addressing a closed session of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, did the unthinkable and denounced his predecessor Stalin. The report on the "cult of the individual", which inevitably and quickly leaked out across the Eastern Bloc, was shocking - people were reported to have fainted upon hearing it. Robert Looby takes a look at the report, and the Polish reaction to it at the time.

  
  
• Lost Souls. Michael Collins in interview.

  Limerick born, US based Michael Collins, is the author of seven novels, including his latest Lost Souls and the Booker shortlisted The Keepers of the Truth. His novels have dealt with, amongst other themes, the darker side of American life. Robert Looby spoke with the author for Three Monkeys Online