NOT THE NEW BYRON BAY Having spent the past three years based in the vampiric, decadent, cultural heart of Europe that is Berlin, where I was a member of a touring band and embraced all the attendant hedonism and wintry Northern European melancholia, I felt it was time to indulge in some healing, health and moderation. I exited stage left and found [...]
Read MorePresident Paul Kagame & the triumphs and failures of Rwandese society. When the actors Ewan Mac Gregor and Charlie Boorman visited Rwanda on their motorcycle journey – for UNICEF – from John O’Groats to Cape Town they were, like many visitors (generally Genocide or Gorilla tourists), both impressed and surprised by this seemingly progressive country [...]
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First published in The Irish Times, Generation Emigration, Tuesday, January 10th, 2012. Neil Goodwin, who considers himself as “a nomadic Irishman, indigenous to the world but belonging to Ireland”, has returned to live in the country of his birth after 16 years travelling the world. I was born here in Ireland, in 1976, to [...]
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