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SOCIOLOGISTS employ all sorts of clever-sounding techniques in order to determine how social systems, such as small rural communities for example, function.
Sat, 21 Apr, 2012
A FEW DAYS after Senator David Norris calls for a debate about standards in Irish life after watching an episode of the show Tallafornia, I decide it’s time to call my own.
Sat, 14 Apr, 2012
IT’S the last night of our weekend-break in Amsterdam.
Sat, 07 Apr, 2012
I’M TAKING a city break with my old friend V. We’ve just turned left out of a specialist cheese emporium and right into a designer interiors shop in Amsterdam.
Sat, 31 Mar, 2012
MY SISTER — resolutely urban and under-whelmed by country life — has arrived from London.
Sat, 24 Mar, 2012
A FRIEND approaches me outside the bank. When I ask after his little daughter, he says that she’s been refusing to brush her teeth.
Sat, 10 Mar, 2012
WE FOUND a bunch of old pony tack when we cleaned out the shed this week.
Sat, 03 Mar, 2012
I’M VISITING my youngest sister.
Sat, 25 Feb, 2012
MY sister-in-law and I are reading the newspapers in companionable quiet at the kitchen table.
Sat, 18 Feb, 2012
IT IS midnight and my husband and I are sitting at the kitchen table.
Sat, 11 Feb, 2012