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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Carry me down - M.J. Hyland in interview

  The first person narrative of a troubled young Irish boy, told in M.J.Hyland's second novel Carry Me Down, captivated audiences and critics alike. It was nominated for last year's Man Booker prize, and described by novelist Monica Ali as "a work of discreet brilliance". Hyland spoke to Three Monkeys recently about her preference for the first person narrative, and about what distinguighes the great novel from the good.

  
  
• Working with the Sahrawi. Interview with Alfonso Torres Istúriz, ATTsF member in the Sahara

  In a personal interview, Alfonso Torres Istúriz, who works in the Moroccan Sahara with the all-too-often forgotten Sahrawi people, gives an insight into the challenges, frustrations, and rewards of working for an NGO.

  
  
• Digging in the dirt - searching for facts and figures in the Peak Oil production debate.

  In 1956 M. King Hubbert predicted a moment when the world would reach a peak in oil production. Since then a debate has raged, mainly between geologists and economists, about the future of oil production and the impact this future will have on everyday life. Robert Looby interviewed leading figures from both sides of the debate.

  
  
• The Nuclear Option - Declan Lynch and The Rooms

  Alcohol as a literary theme is an enduring one, despite the frowns of the politically correct. Irish journalist/novelist Declan Lynch places the 'demon drink' firmly, and unrepentantly at the centre of his debut novel The Rooms. In interview with Brendan Coffey he explains why...

  
  
• 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?