{"id":6488,"date":"2025-09-07T21:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:46:20","slug":"michael-d-higgins-against-all-certainty-album-review-poems-to-make-your-head-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6488\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael D Higgins&#8217; Against All Certainty album review: poems to make your head spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">President\u2019s collection features strong storytelling about historical struggles, with a backdrop of plinky-plonky music\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael D Higgins does not tackle modern life in poems. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/116905660.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael D Higgins does not tackle modern life in poems. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is perhaps not a great idea for a politician to declare himself \u201cagainst all certainty\u201d, as our President does in the title of his new poetry collection, released as an album costing \u20ac29.95 on fetching blue vinyl. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You would think that someone against all certainty would be very much opposed to the idea of holding two consecutive terms in presidential office, but then Michael D is about to retire after 14 years in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u2019s collection features strong storytelling about historical struggles, with a backdrop of plinky-plonky music Michael D Higgins does&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7196,93,61,60,977],"class_list":{"0":"post-6488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eamon-de-valera","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-d-higgins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}