Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Broad Thoughts From Home

    I admit that my posting regime over the past few weeks has been about as consistent as Bertie Ahern’s explanations about his personal finances. The reason for my most recent radio silence can be
  • The making of a monster – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selecte
  • Who Killed Roberto Calvi

    In July of 1982, just a month after the discovery of his body – hanging from some scaffolding under Blackfriars bridge – a London inquest ruled that Italian Banker Roberto Calvi had commit
  • Poland’s Problem with Eco-Terrorists

    An announcement from the Polish Government on July 31st 2007, halting work on a stretch of by-pass, hardly sent shock-waves round Europe. Work on the road round Augustow – in Podlaskie, the coun
  • Cold War Psychohistory in the Scottish Psyche

    The Inner Life of Conflict It is customary to think of the Cold War as having been a post–World War II phenomenon, tersely strung between Stalin and Gorbachev. Whilst that may be so within a nar
  • Naked ambition gets you nowhere

    There was quite a brooha, here, the other week in relation to an opinion piece written by Adrian Michaels in the Financial Times entitled Naked Ambition (brought to my attention by the eagle-eyed ,Sha
  • Two takes on tragedy

    The differing approaches to major stories taken by RTE and the next largest media organisation in the state, Independent Newspapers, are highlighted in their respective coverage of yesterday’s t
  • A Blowhard Comes to Grief in the Windy City

    It is challenge to the powers of empathy to squeeze out a tear over the fate of Baron Black of Crossharbour. Still, from an Irish judicial perspective, you might wonder whether the prospect of several
  • Freedom and Responsibility

    “I like it when they beat up students,” he confessed with a smile. I didn’t go so far but I agreed that in America, France and West Germany they had it too good and it wouldn’t