http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/ Three Monkeys Online is a current affairs & arts magazine published in Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the Uk, and read worldwide en information@threemonkeysonline.com 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. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/mervyn_peake_gormenghast_trilogy.html Dr. Catherine Lawless explores the position of a particular category of women who did not fit at all easily into either religious or social stereotypes, women who were the objects of amorous devotion on the part of prominent and influential citizens and on a more earthy level women who were mistresses, concubines and mothers of illegitimate children in Renaissance Florence. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/women_margins_mistresses_florence_lawless.html Dublin band the Delorentos are riding high in the limelight, with a nomination for both best Irish band of 2008, and best Irish album of 2008 for in love with detail. Brendan Coffey met up with guitarist Ronan Yourell, to talk abou the band's past,present, and future http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/delorentos_love_with_detail_dublin.html Pedro Almodóvar’s name is mentioned in intelectual circles among those who love Spanish cinematographic history beside the names of great directors such as Saura or Buñuel. In his last film, the internationally acclaimed Volver, the ilustrous man from La Mancha guides us on a fascinating walk along legend-filled streets of his childhood. He takes us through the austere La Mancha courtyards and he sorrounds us in the scent of fighting mothers, in the land that the great Cervantes already described in his Quixote. Like Cervante’s mad knight, the characters in Volver seem to have lost their marbles. “It is because of the wind Solano ” as the main character mentions, a dry wind that feeds everyday the everlasting mills and that, in one of the last scenes, drives the rubbish containers dancing through the desert streets. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/almodovar_la_mancha_volver.html A campaign by Ireland's leading sports personalities, Show Racism the Red Card, highlights the role sport can have in integrating immigrant communities in the social fabric of a country. But to what extent does Ireland's sporting infrastructure welcome immigrant talent? Brendan Coffey looks at the 'immigration debate' through the prism of sport. http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/red_card_racism_ireland_integration.html