New Double Vision

Shakespeare cartoon“When you’re born into a city that has more than double the population of Ireland, you can’t afford to worry about strangers that much.
England is not so much a country of 70 million people, but a collection of a million villages of 70 people.
That’s how you survive.”

Check out this column by Charlie Adley where he assesses his relationship with his native land.

New Double Vision

self esteem cartoonI ate. I ate and ate, not like bingey carrier bags of chocolate bars hidden under the bed, but just a lot of stuff that made me feel better. Naturally I got fat, which was a perfect match for my being suddenly stupid, still unsporting and having an absolute lack of Chick Magnetivity.

Cartoons from Country Living!

Dickie Rock Showband Caricature

Cartoon of Dickie Rock in the Showband era with the Spit on me Dickie chant as huge knickers fly towards him from the audience. Every year the Connacht Tribune runs a supplement called Country Living. It features a range of articles on modern rural living as well as nostalgic pieces on how it used to … Read more