Stephen Kearney – Columnist

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Stephen Kearney’s article – My first Chinese
My First Chinese by Stephen Kearney “Would you like a meal?” asked the manager, as I stood there on the work surface, tools in hand, my face streaked in cooking oil as I told him the job was completed. Suddenly I was on the spot – in addition to being on the...
Stephen Kearney – The day my universe changed
The Day My Universe Changed by Stephen Kearney It happened on a fine August day in 1968. I was waiting at a bus-stop in Ballsbridge, an up-market Dublin suburb, on the last leg of the journey, returning home from a seemingly healthy, (apart from smoking), camping...
Stephen Kearney – Standing up
Standing Up by Stephen Kearney At what stage do we develop self-perception? When do we learn to see ourselves in relation to others? Was I an early starter? By the age of six I knew I was weak. I was weak as in physically lacking strength but I was not a...
Stephen Kearney – The Melting Pot Boils Over – The revised version
by Stephen Kearney Art imitating life must be one of the hoariest old clichés around but even clichés must have to emerge from somewhere. There must have been a semblance of truth in the idea somewhere, sometime. What happens when the cliché is out-clichéd?...
Stephen Kearney – Reflections on realignment of nations
Dear All, Part of the way we interact with each other from individuals to nations, is based on certain presumptions about each other's capabilities. Put at its crudest and simplest, one of the reasons that Israel is not openly attacked by its neighbours, despite the...
Stephen Kearney – When Nick Glegg came to town
When Nick Clegg Came to Town As the days to the 2010 general election were going down, the leader visits were going up. Babies were being kissed in ever increasing numbers up and down the country by party leaders with the subsequent hand and mouth disinfecting...
Stephen Kearney – Another Kind of Noise
Living on a council estate (sorry, ex local authority estate, to give it its proper standing in estate agent parlance) inures you to a lot. If you were to retain the carefully nurtured middle class sensibilities of leafy suburbia, you’d never get a night’s...
Post by Stephen Kearney – Confounding the conditioning
Confounding the Conditioning By Stephen Kearney “ …. And it’s not just for you” the old man continued grimly, peering over the top of his glasses during one of his many, interminable stern lectures about how I’d have to do better at school, “it’s for your wife and...
Review by Stephen Kearney – July 2020 -Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey
Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass By Darren McGarvey Review by Stephen Kearney Few people get a worse start in life than Darren McGarvey, author of Poverty Safari. Born to a violent, alcoholic mother on a sink estate near Glasgow, he grew...