Vol. XXIII - Issue 2 - OTwo

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letter from the EDITORS

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Musings (And The Like) with Adam Donnelly.

MYSTIC MITTENS

The inimitable Adam Donnelly sporting his latest facial expression

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A R T S A N D C U LT U R E – NEWS AND EVENTS LINGO Festival

Dublin Book Festival: The Rising Generation

Investigations 2016

Halloween at the Lighthouse Cinema

Dublin Theatre Festival: The Father

Folk artist Sive will play at the Dublin Book Festival next month

What’s Hot & What’s Not HOT:

NOT:

That time before the “Assignment Anxiety” starts:

Murder clowns:

Solange:

Niall Horan :

Black Mirror:

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Harambe jokes:

OTwo//Travel

Youths on the streets of Catania

Caffè Curtigghiu Mount Etna towering over the Catanian skyline

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OTwo//Food

FOODSOC:

Dancing to the Meat: Students gather in the Astra Hall for Food Soc’s Disco Brunch

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Restaurant Review:

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OTwo//Games

ZoĂŤ Jellicoe

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OTwo//Games

INSIDE

Hands On - For Honor

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OTwo//Film&TV

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Scarlett Johanssen in the 2017 production of Ghost in the Shell

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Review: Mattress Men

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OTwo//Creative Writing

C OLD AM BIT IO N

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OTwo//Creative Writing

Persephone

by Robyn Gilmour I hear them humming through the branches of the Wyche Elm. I think about the old neighbourhood cats, once stroked and fattened, curled up in its roots;

Don’t look in the Mirror

Designated Guardian

by Ezra Maloney

by Ilena Brady

2am His body had betrayed him He knows this by looking in the mirror Self-realisation or suicide Hairs clogged in the shower drain Matted clumps vaguely pubic

It is 7am.

They are all and gone everything on me.

hoping despite it all that things work out

In the bathroom Dragon’s breath He sinks down into it for the birds nesting in the Disappears branches above.

His body had betrayed him They absorb the eggs that He could feel it in the fall and sleep easy growths on his chest Sacks of meat placed knowing what is in store mistakenly (a cruel cosmic for the restless souls above. joke) Maybe one day I’ll be content to rot away under its leaves, the cool soil; having said my piece, having wasted it all.

And return the following spring to warm the leaves, the water,

In all the worldyou exist.

In all around- your absence persists.

And with all my tattered senses and shaken fists.

No poetry, No joke, No writing at all.

Nothing in the whole world will make this better.

Heavier than hell Eyes Half shut To keep the demons out Rotten thoughts sizzle on The paltry drizzle Of a shower Can’t dampen them His body betrays him More and more each passing day.

the space between your shoulders.

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OTwo//Matthew Todd

How to Be Gay and Happy: An Interview with Matthew Todd

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Matthew Todd speaking on ITV

The Sun, London, 14th October 1985

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V

1985

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OTwo//Music

REVIVAL OR RENAISSANCE?

Grime artist Skepta

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Striking a Chord: Heathers performing for MusicSoc in the Fitzgerald Chamber

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DUBLIN GIG GUIDE October 13th - Death Grips - The Academy

October 28th - Kerri Chandler - District 8

October 29th - Augustines - Vicar Street

November 3rd-5th - Metropolis - RDS

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ALBUM REVIEWS Sirens

Acoustic Recording 1998-2016

22, A Million

WHAT ARE YOU

LISTENING TO?

Arthur McBride Planxty Conor Viscardi, President

Not Letting Go – Tinie Tempah feat. Jess Glynne Lexi Kilmartin, Education Officer

Sugar Man (Vanilla Ace Remix) - Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP Luke Fitzpatrick, Campaigns & Communications Officer

Best Of You – Foo Fighters

Cian Casey, Graduate Officer

I Don’t Even Know Who – Little Green Cars Róisín Ní Mhara , Welfare Officer

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OTwo//Fashion

What in the Name of

Diva?

Om Diva

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You Must Be Joking

Vetements DHL T-shirt

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D E S I G N E R S P OT L I G H T:

Maria Lola Roche’s new collection of street wear

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OTwo//Arts&Lit

ART IST

Orson Scott Card

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Print Journalism on Life Support?

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OBSERVE THE SONS:

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme performed in the Abbey Theatre

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FATAL FOURWAY Worst Halloween Experience

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A PE R T UR E /photography//expressions/

Joanna O’Malley

Ryan O’Donnell

Camille Lombard Nikhil Wali

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