CURIOSITIES: STRUWWELPETER

As featured in The Irish Times Magazine, Saturday April 26th 2008. STRUWWELPETER: MERRY STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES Child discipline is a subject that’s preoccupied humanity ever since Kane and Abel started giving their parents lip. For the Victorians, it was never too...
Gottfried Helnwein – Head Above the Cuckoo’s Nest (2000)

Gottfried Helnwein – Head Above the Cuckoo’s Nest (2000)

Extracts from this interview were used for features in Irish Tatler and The Dubliner. See the feature on him in Tatler here.     James Fennell and I met Gottfried Helnwein on a bleak and blackened Wednesday afternoon shortly before Christmas 2000. He was at his castle...

Too Close to Closing Time for Irish Pub – Nov 2008

Turtle Bunbury ponders the fate of the Irish pub on the launch of his new book. The story was accompanied by a six page photographic spread of James Fennell’s wonderful photos in the Oct-Nov 2008 edition of Cara, the Aer Lingus flight magazine, which is one reason why...
Ireland’s Wine Geese

Ireland’s Wine Geese

We may not have the climate to grow our own vines, but the Irish have done a colossal amount to develop the wine trade and spread those succulent grape juices across this world from France to California to Australia and New Zealand. Complete access to all articles on...

At home on the Aeolian Islands – Abroad.

So, Odysseus is on his way home to Ithaca to catch up with his wife who he hasn’t seen in ages, because he’s been beating up Trojans. His fleet comes to rest upon an island just north of Sicily. Aeolus, the King of the Island, is a friendly chap. He lives with his six...