MurmurationsIn the dusk hours of a November evening in 2020, James Crombie set out for the shore of Lough Ennell, Co. Westmeath with no goal except to find a brief reprieve from the chaos of modern life. One of Irelands most lauded sports photographers, Crombie had spent months each year travelling the globe, snapping glimpses of sporting glory amid roaring crowds. Once the pandemic arrived however, he found himself suspended in an unfamiliar moment of stillness,

to say nothing of those who simply care about Ireland’s future

that his birthplace – through the good offices of the Gate Theatre

other Orders within the Franciscan family

RIC constables and British army officers on parade

wrote with confidence and passion about the world of his childhood and the powerful alien forces that had destroyed that world

the Second World War was the most intense period of their lives – with horizons widened by grief

All these here once walked around Dublin

To some they are making something of their lives

the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)

shredded and pushed beyond our boundaries' - her meditations forming a perfectly poised novella as lyrically tender as it is viscerally sensuous

Maisie Gaffikin

lost for fifty years