Paulie Doyle

Some of the best house parties of my college years were on Good Friday.

Years before my job with The Ditch, I worked freelance for Irish and British magazines. The subjects I was assigned were often interesting, but putting together articles could be  mechanical.

There’s a revisionist Irish history that goes like this.

I like to work The Sopranos into classes I teach. Earlier this year, while teaching a module on narrative studies, I played one of my favourite scenes for some undergraduates.

I knew things were about to get pretty Serious when I saw Stephen Collins. The Irish Times columnist had written yet another piece explaining we’d better start acting like adults because our betters in Europe and the United States aren’t looking at us favourably right now.