Irish Tatler Séamas O’Reilly: ‘I fall deeply, into unrequited love with 85 per cent of the girls I meet’Writing for the upcoming Art of Adventure issue of Irish Tatler magazine, the Derry author looks back on holidaying with 12 siblings and the first tastes of teenage freedom
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘We’re still renting because we’re a professional couple in full-time work, not Godlike emperors who bathe in jewels’The author on moving to a bigger home with his growing family and fighting the near-irresistible urge to upgrade everything they own
Seamas O’Reilly: ‘Having long thought that I’d read Borstal Boy as a child, I picked it up recently to discover I never had’The author on why the joy of reading is one of the first casualties of a publisher’s deadline
Podcasts Séamas O’Reilly: ‘Commuting provides the downtime I need to engage the darker recesses of my imagination’True Crime podcasts are just what is needed to stand in grim contrast to days which seem to be, slowly but surely, growing brighter
Séamas O’Reilly: When I was a kid, mid-life crises were something men did on TV and I wanted inIf anyone was owed a mid-life crisis, it was my dad, and yet the craziest thing he did in his middle age was get really into genealogy
Séamas O’Reilly: Elon Musk got to where he is through ingenuity, but the emerald mine his father owned probably didn’t hurt.There’s a huge market in preaching male betterment through books, podcasts and YouTube series, but much of it adds little to the common store of human knowledge
Séamas O’Reilly: Where else, but on the internet could we ‘virtually’ burrow through the earth?The Irish Tatler columnist considers the world wide web afresh
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘Forget the Northern Lights, a pathway back to the old normal may be the greatest escape of all’On the joy of the return of more simple pleasures
Séamas O’Reilly: Compared to dungeon life, I’ll take the freckles and sweat in my stride’On his ever-evolving, particularly idiosyncratic relationship with the sun
Séamas O’Reilly: What happens when the male gaze gets turned on itself?Men are feeling more pressure than ever to achieve unattainable looks, but women have been graded and degraded on their appearance for centuries. It’s time for us all to go easy on ourselves
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘I find myself wallowing in the the books, music, films and culture of my childhood and adolescence’There are some worrying signs that I am, in fact, growing down, not up
“Like the guy at a party who keeps telling us that Bitcoin is really interesting, society is lying to us”Séamus O’Reilly answers your questions on men, manliness, and the double bind of the patriarchy