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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Make it official? The Gaelic language in Europe.

  As the European Union prepares to expand the number of member states, and consequently the number of official languages, Irish language enthusiasts fight to preserve Europe's second oldest language.

  
  
• ''Iraq's Perilous Election and the Need for Exit Strategies''

  In the runup to Iraq's general elections that decide who will sit on the 275-member national assembly, Baghdad's course toward that end grows more perilous each day. In a special report drafted by the PINR, Erich Marquardt analyses the run up to the election, and viable exit strategies for the US military.

  
  
• Tragedy is an extreme form of desire - Ken Harvey interview

  Ken Harvey's debut collection of short stories, If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right won the inaugural Violet Quill award for Gay/Lesbian fiction. In interview with Three Monkeys, American author Harvey discusses the inspiration for his stories, the role of autobiography, and the moment that he discovered a fiction that spoke to him of his own reality.

  
  
• Halloween. All Hallows Eve - the day between years.

  As children from America through to Italy celebrate Halloween, with the obligatory pumpkins and masks, the celtic and pagan origins of the festival are obscured. Berit Haugen Keyes takes a timely look at the origins and development of the festival.

  
  
• Iraq Death Toll in Third Year of Occupation is Highest Yet

  Three years on from the Invasion of Iraq, and the human cost of this war is still unclear. While information on civilian deaths is still unforthcoming from the US & UK governments, the Iraq Body Count provides important figures.