Séamas O'Reilly: The Cork-made Irish music film which has raised my spirits like no other 

"...it was recorded during the 2021 Quiet Lights festival in Cork, in a host of locations around the city - all filmed with unfussy elan."

Clockwise from top-left: Rachel Lavelle; Niamh O'Regan; Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Kate Ellis & Caimin Gilmore; and Laura Quirke & Joshua Burnside in A City Under Quiet Lights Vol. 1

A large part of my week, I must at some point admit to myself, is given over to despair. 

One of the main ways I pay my rent is by writing about current events for a living. Worse, this job sits atop my pre-existing and terminal addiction to inhaling every horror that trickles across my newsfeed.