badass kids Irish storyteller cleans up his act after kid reads him the riot act Seamus Bellamy

music Travel Tunes: Kíla: Suas Síos Seamus Bellamy

genocide This children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist violence for kids Thom Dunn

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

law IRS sues Facebook for $9bn Rob Beschizza

animals A police dog is running against the goat incumbent mayor of a small Vermont town Thom Dunn

pizza Irish people have a very strange understanding of "pizza" Thom Dunn

booze These festive cocktails will kick your holiday celebrations up a notch Seamus Bellamy

brand theft auto Grand Theft Auto maker hasn't paid corporation tax in 10 years Rob Beschizza

halloween Examining the generational loss of ancient Halloween traditions Thom Dunn

politics New Brexit deal announced. It's Theresa May's one but with a border in the Irish sea Rob Beschizza

ireland The traditional music of the world would die without risk-takers like Martin Hayes Seamus Bellamy

fake news Wacko Jacko “Perv” proof, Queen shafts Prince Charles, and Angie “anorexic” (again) in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

corruption Addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife Cory Doctorow

photography A modern mudlarker finds treasures washed up on the River Thames banks David Pescovitz

folk music Martin Hayes Quartet: Let The Blue Room calm your fractured soul Seamus Bellamy

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants How to Win Friends and Convince People to Watch Eurovision Catherynne Valente

punk Weekend Tunes: The Pogues Live at the Town and Country Seamus Bellamy