I’m Lou. How Do You Do?
IRL. In Real Life. In Irl. Domesticky is where the personal gets political.
It’s a contemporary Irish blog with its sleeves rolled up – unpacking who we are as a people, in this place and at this time, with the ghost of empire at our backs and the possibility of real self-determination firmly at the fore.
This isn’t a curated aesthetic. This is lived experience. IRL.
From menopause to mortgages, grief to government gaslighting, Domesticky puts words to the things we’re told to swallow.
It’s sharp, darkly funny, and fiercely feminist – rooted in Irish culture but global in its reach.
I write about unpaid labour and unspoken histories. About how the logistics of survival – feeding people, fighting burnout, holding fractured systems together – are anything but apolitical.
This is a space where empire gets called out and patriarchy gets no free pass, in an effort to start the revolution from my kitchen sink.
Everything is connected – capitalism, collapse, convenience culture – Domesticky insists that the home is not a retreat from politics. It is the stage. And we’re not just surviving here. We’re strategising.
Because in Ireland, in real life, the personal is still political.
And Irish women have never just been keeping house. We’ve been keeping history.
Domesticky is my exploration of how our domestic space, with all its disarray, is the launchpad for shaping economics, politics, love, family, and culture.
Because a woman’s place is at the hearth, stoking the fire.
This is my IRL, In Real Life ☘️
OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS
I also welcome commissioned work. If there’s a subject or story you’d like me to explore in the form of a magazine/newspaper article, blog or script, please get in touch. I look forward to working with you!
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