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Prophet Song: A wake-up call for the middle classes?

13 December 2023 / 375

Oh, oh, people of the earthListen to the warning the seer he said“Beware the storm that gathers here”Listen to the wise man.– The Prophet’s Song, Queen, 1975... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Art enters the age of imperialism: The Scream, by Edvard Munch

6 December 2023 / 352

It’s the 160th anniversary of Edvard Munch’s birth on 12 December, and the 80th anniversary of his death in January. Munch’s The Scream (1893) speaks to us... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Hans Holbein the Younger

14 November 2023 / 350

Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg in the winter of 1497/98 and died 480 years ago, in October or November 1543. He was one of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Sean O’Casey, Ireland’s greatest working-class playwright

30 October 2023 / 659

Paul O’Brien, the first Irish critic to publish a full-length political biography of Sean O’Casey from a left-wing perspective, talks to Jenny Farrell about some largely unknown... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer

9 October 2023 / 641

Jenny Farrell reviews Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O’Brien Anybody who has come across the work of independent scholar and critic Paul O’Brien knows... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Peace for all those alive: Pablo Neruda on the 50th anniversary of his death

25 September 2023 / 329

Peace for all those alive: peace for all lands and all waters. ************** In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Dramatising Revolution: Review of a trilogy of Sean O’Casey’s plays

16 September 2023 / 535

Seán O’Casey – the first proletarian dramatist writing in English – made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

Strumpet City, by James Plunkett

14 August 2023 / 358

The Dublin lockout of 1913 was one of the greatest industrial disputes in Irish history. The conflict between some 20,000 workers and 300 employers lasted from 26... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

The strength, courage and creativity of women: the paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi

18 June 2023 / 365

Jenny Farrell writes about Artemisia Gentileschi (8 July 1593-1656) One of the great weaknesses of bourgeois establishment art analysis is that the artist and their work are... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

Love, mutual trust and solidarity: Chingiz Aitmatov, the Kyrgyzstan national writer

28 May 2023 / 498

One of the lasting effects of the continuing cultural Cold War against all socialist thought and culture is the West’s denial of the art of socialist countries.... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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