The play “Mnemonic” first appeared on the stage in 1999, quickly establishing itself as a classic, and it has been reactivated and ‘reimagined’ for a new production at  the National Theatre in London.   Sean Sheehan   The drama   does not begin with the lights going out but with an […]

The Roman emperor Nero is said to have played the fiddle while the city burned down. Probably apocryphal but it serves as an image of irresponsibility in the face of a disaster.   Sean Sheehan   A real-life equivalent is a tourist attempting to grab a piece of melted iceberg […]

London’s Southbank is one of the city’s locations not to be missed on sunny days or balmy evenings, especially the pedestrianized stretch between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge.   Sean Sheehan   The views up or down the Thames from either of these bridges are memorable and not to be […]

On a recent trip to Peru I made a visit to Casa Aliaga, a colonial mansion first built when Pizarro handed out goodies to his soldiers. One of them, Jerónimo de Aliaga y Ramirez, built a grand house and seventeen generations of his family have been living there since 1535. […]

When Simon Murphy’s “Govanhill” was first published it lost little time in selling out but the good news is that a second edition of 500 copies (five times the number of the first print run) is now available.   Sean Sheehan   Murphy has been photographing Govanhill, a neighbourhood of […]