Weekend Guide: 12 of the best events happening around Ireland
Weekend Guide: 12 of the best events happening around Ireland

Sarah Gill

How to handle the co-worker who brings everyone down
How to handle the co-worker who brings everyone down

Victoria Stokes

Majken Bech Bailey on her life in food
Majken Bech Bailey on her life in food

Holly O'Neill

A new Netflix series about the Guinness family is in the works
A new Netflix series about the Guinness family is in the works

Sarah Finnan

Why the music of Sinéad O’Connor will stay with us forever
Why the music of Sinéad O’Connor will stay with us forever

Jan Brierton

My Life in Culture: Artist Jess Kelly
My Life in Culture: Artist Jess Kelly

Sarah Finnan

This enchanting home on Lough Derg is on the market for €950,000
This enchanting home on Lough Derg is on the market for €950,000

Sarah Finnan

Irish Design Spotlight: Emporium
Irish Design Spotlight: Emporium

Sarah Finnan

This homely thatched cottage is on the market for €250,000
This homely thatched cottage is on the market for €250,000

Sarah Finnan

This adorable West Cork cottage is on the market for €345,000
This adorable West Cork cottage is on the market for €345,000

Megan Burns

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Lynn Enright: Should I have had a lockdown passion project?


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by Lynn Enright
14.06.21

Read time: 6 minutes

Is pandemic productivity getting a little toxic? Lynn Enright wonders if surviving a pandemic and perfecting her Negroni skills should be enough.

The King Lear discourse was a harbinger of things to come. In March 2020, as we shuffled around terrified of the mysterious virus, a preposterous discussion about whether or not Shakespeare had written King Lear while in quarantine – and whether or not it was appropriate to model your own quarantine output on the man widely acknowledged to be the world’s best-ever writer – took place online.  That first little internet row erupted before lockdown...

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