CTRL: Essays on Video GamesIn CTRL, writers turn their focus to one of the most influential and persistently misunderstood art forms of the modern era. Through memoir, criticism, and narrative exploration, these essays chart the ways video games intersect with memory, identity, imagination, and the complicated business of being human. Here, games become ciphers for joy and escape, but also for pain, addiction, burnout and longing. They emerge as places where we grow up, fall

Their world has rarely been evoked so sensitively as in this beguiling and most engaging narrative

Sinn Féin and the Gaelic League

and driven by a sparkling narrative style

The metaphoric richness in which his work is elaborated lends Anaconda Canoe

The horrible truth of their mismatch is examined through the evidence entered by both parties in the divorce proceedings

Your thoughts will crumble with us

who write on and around the themes of the Kinship project – migration

Tommy Makem and James Clarence Mangan: a gathering of the familiar and unfamiliar

and introduce a new generation of readers to this skilled scourge of Irish society

is coming for a visit

cottage and country-house interiors

and the unexpected twist in Losers Weepers is so skillfully executed it leaves the reader gasping