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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• A Poet's Space - an interview with Brendan Kennelly

  Lauded by Auden and Bono, Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most succesful, and popular, poets. Kennelly, born in Ballylongford Kerry, is the author of , amongst others, The Book of Judas, Cromwell, and Poetry My Arse. Brendan Kennelly, in conversation with Tom Brace for Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• EU enlargement endangered?

  The failure of both the ratification process for the European Constitution, and to find consensus at the recent European Council summit may have an impact upon further expansion of the Union. Dr. John O'Brennan, of the University of Limerick, argues that enlargement should, and must go ahead.

  
  
• Taking the gun out of Irish politics - again

  After the murder of unarmed Belfast man, Robert McCartney, by the I.R.A., Sinn Féin have once more come under intense public pressure to deliver on their declared intention of "taking the gun out of Irish politics". In the words of Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, we have reached a "historic moment". Students of Irish History will recall a number of such moments in the past. Feargal McGarry compares and contrasts the path to constitutional politics taken by Republicans Eamonn De Valera and Gerry Adams.

  
  
• It's in the blood. The Citizenship referendum in Ireland

  The justice minister in Ireland has proposed a constitutional ammendment to change the basis on which Irish Citizenship is granted. Marie Sandland takes a look at some of the issues involved.

  
  
• The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Civil War

  In the concluding part of his three part series, Colm McInerney examines the Treaty and Civil War period of Irish History.