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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• An Irish Life. Nell McCafferty in interview.

  In her autobiography, Nell, Nell McCafferty touches upon many of the dominant themes of Irish history and society over the last 50 years. From feminism through to armed conflict in Northern Ireland, McCafferty has always had strong opinions, which she shares with Three Monkeys Online in interview.

  
  
• Nothing New - Globalization, Economics, and the 19th Century

  Globalization is far from new - International trade was arguably more developed and free in the 19^th Century. Economist Professor Kevin O'Rourke talks to Three Monkeys Online

  
  
• In Defence of a Liberal Education.

  Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The War for Children's Minds, argues that we would not, and why, then, should we accept religious schools so readily?

  
  
• Writing Against Terror - Nadeem Aslam

  In the wake of the London bombings, Nadeem Aslam's critically acclaimed novel Maps for Lost Lovers takes on a new relevance, set as it is in the Pakistani immigrant communities of the North of England. For Aslam, art and politics are not separate worlds, as he explains to Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• 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?