This first post to the Threemonkeysonline blog, which aims to give writers based in Ireland, Italy, and Spain a platform for their opinions, miscellaneous musings, and favourite links, is concerned with events unfolding in New York as it becomes increasingly apparent that President Bush has a good chance of staying in the White House after […]
It is somehow grimly appropriate that ten years after he shot himself through the heart, Guy Debord, an acute analyst of how the media can blandly neuter transgressive figures, has become a ‘celebrity’. Surrounded by calumnies and myths, the one-time leader of the Situationist International (SI) has become indelibly associated with the euphoria of the […]
Anyone who has caught “Reeling in the Years,” RTE’s knock-off of the BBC’s “The Rock’n’Roll Years”, in which contemporary music is spliced in with archive news footage would quickly be reminded that Ireland in the 1980s was a basket case. Moving statues, hunger strikes, mass emigration, and Miami Vice-style jackets all featured prominently in the […]
Silvio Berlusconi and the dark heart of Italy. Review by Shane Barry. In the last decade or so, the countries that French bookstores warily lump together as “le domaine Anglo-Saxon” have regained their self-confidence, thanks to elevated growth rates and comparatively low unemployment. Those who believe the recent economic revival of English-speaking nations can by […]
The reason why 2001: A Space Odyssey still fascinates audience cannot be ascribed wholly to the film's outstanding special effects, which continue to convince over thirty years after its release – a major achievement for a science-fiction movie made before the first Moon landing. The less obvious draw, which compels the picture's devotees to return […]
