European societies are not built for the climate reality we now inhabit
The terrifying heat-map of the future is here
Mark O’Connell
Writer
Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers
Gripping thrillers, sport memoirs and the best recent fiction to pack in your holiday suitcase
Fewer people are having babies. Could smartphones be the reason?
We already knew smartphones are the product of a kind capitalism that is profoundly anti-human
Attack drones have captured the most disturbing images of war I’ve seen
There is something undeniably sinister in the combination of intimacy and detachment in footage taken by ‘first person view’ drones
You would have to be borderline insane – or American – to feel nostalgic for 1970s Ireland
The reductive vision of a bucolic Irish past might seem absurd to most Irish people, but it lands in a different way for conservative Americans
You don’t think Jesus Christ could return as AI? Talk to Joe Rogan
The early modern Europeans had the printed book. We have videos of guys talking on podcasts
It was like watching the housing crisis covered by a future Reeling in the Years
The problem with the Department of Housing video is not the video itself, but rather the fact that the department thought it a good idea
12 of the best audiobooks for history buffs
Books about the Americas, photography, Cuba, rampant western hypocrisy, the Roman empire, Africa and much more
The belief that technology could allow us to speak to the dead is deeply human
The more advanced our technologies become, the more effectively they channel primordial desires, terrors, delusions
Piotr Torng was held in the Dublin city morgue for six months. No one came forward
Most obvious and troubling example of our ability to ‘unsee’ is surely our capacity not to see the homeless
No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?
People buy into a chemical understanding of human psychology when really what they’re describing is our deeply complex, irreducibly mysterious inner life
Mars review: INO’s exhilarating space-travel opera comes from a mind exploding with ideas
Jennifer Walshe’s new opera, created with Mark O’Connell, is like nothing else Irish National Opera has staged
Ready for launch: Mark O’Connell and Jennifer Walshe on Mars, their new collaboration
Galway International Arts Festival stages the premiere of an Irish opera in which four women astronauts embark on a Martian voyage
Emilie Pine: ‘I miss the children I didn’t have. Some people get that and some don’t’
The author’s debut novel draws on her personal experience of infertility and loss
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices