Why I write about politics, even though it's messyFor a long time, I avoided putting politics anywhere near this blog. The site began as a place for book notes, coffee lists, and the occasional essay about…
The Best Time Of Day To Visit The Guinness StorehouseFor many Australians, a visit to the Guinness Storehouse is the Dublin stop that needs the most careful timing. It is easy to treat the brewery experience as a…
What Gaeilge Reveals About Irish National IdentityA language can carry a nation’s memory in ways that flags and ceremonies cannot. In Ireland, Gaeilge contains place names, songs, legal ideas, family histories…
How to explore Dublin’s street art sceneDublin’s street art is easy to miss if you move through the city with your eyes fixed on shopfronts, traffic lights and the next coffee stop. Look higher and…
Books That Changed How I Read Technology and SocietyMy favourite non-fiction books about technology and society are rarely books about gadgets, software or futuristic predictions alone. The ones that stay with…
The Engineering Behind the Perfect Guinness GlassA pint of Guinness looks simple: dark stout, pale head, familiar harp, and a glass shaped for the hand. Yet the vessel is doing several jobs at once. It has to…
Why I Track My Reading Habits (And You Should Too)I used to think of reading as something that happened quietly: a book appeared on the bedside table, I read it, and then it disappeared into a shelf. The…
How to Get a Good Cup of Coffee in a Dublin HotelA hotel coffee in Dublin can be anything from a carefully made flat white to a brown, overheated drink dispensed from a machine beside the breakfast buffet.…