Little Atoms Round-Up (the we are unstoppable edition)

Eurovision history, marriage equality, an ode to Balustrade Lanyard, hemp pizza, a personal insight into dementia and half-price tickets for a fascinating new theatre production

The Ireland That We Dreamed Of: Watching the equal marriage referendum from abroad

On the eve of the referendum, how it feels to be Irish and watching the whole thing from a far

Lynsey Addario: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War

In our latest podcast, we speak to the American photojournalist for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine about getting a Taliban VISA and what it’s like working in some of the world’s most dangerous places.

When Eurovision came to town

In 1993, as war raged in the Balkans, the Eurovision circus descended on the tiny Irish town of Millstreet. It was, with the emergence of nations from the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc, the beginning of the modern era of the competition. We revisit one writer’s account

Hemp for victory!

“If you smoke this, the only thing that you would get is a big headache,” Why hemp’s having its heyday thanks to new products like pizza and bio bricks.

Dementia: 'What you see of me is what I really am'

In an exclusive extract from The Hard Word Box, Sarah Hesketh talks to George, a resident in a care home for people with dementia, in a moving personal account of both the past and present.  

For Balustrade Lanyard: O Lanyard! My Lanyard!

The New Statesman may have asked what the point of this piece is, but we’ll never stop calling for #FreeBalustradeLanyard

The anatomy of mass murder

A new play premiering in London explores the dark process of genocide from incitement to denial

Little Atoms readers can get 2-for-1 tickets for No Feedback on Friday 22 and Satuuday 23 May. Click here to book, using reference 119FR.

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