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Horror beneath the surface: a warning for our time

1 May 2023 / 382

How can memorials powerfully remind us of past horrors? How can they keep the atrocities of the past alive and relevant? Micha Ullmann’s Berlin memorial (above, by... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

Katja Oskamp: Marzahn Mon Amour

13 April 2023 / 590

The shortlist for the annual International Dublin Literary Award for 2023 was published in late March. Among the six books on the list is a book by... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Sean O’Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman

1 April 2023 / 444

Sean O’Casey’s play The Shadow of a Gunman premiered 100 years ago, on April 12, 1923, at Dublin’s national Irish theatre, the Abbey Theatre. The theatre, which... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

‘Siblings’: the search for a new humanity through socialism in the GDR

24 February 2023 / 376

“Siblings” by German Democratic Republic writer Brigitte Reiman has just been published in English translation by Penguin, in its series of classic international literature. It comes sixty... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Brendan Behan: playwright, poet, novelist, socialist and republican

6 February 2023 / 395

On the 100th anniversary of Behan’s birth in 1923, Jenny Farrell celebrates his life and work. Photo above by William Murphy Brendan Behan was arguably one of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

The Banshees of Inisherin

15 January 2023 / 289

International film awards are by no means a good film guide, and this applies as much to The Banshees of Inisherin as to other films. The story... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Religion

‘I’m a Marxist who believes in God’: Ernesto Cardenal, 1925-2020

27 December 2022 / 482

Since the rise of early capitalism, the quest of working people for liberation, equality and peace for all – not only for the evolving bourgeois class –... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Women’s rights and class relations: George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’

31 October 2022 / 503

George Bernard Shaw (26th July 1856 to 2nd November 1950) was the second Irish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to him two years after... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Cock-a-doodle Dandy, by Sean O’Casey

28 September 2022 / 506

Seán O’Casey’s best known and arguably most controversial plays are his early Dublin plays about Ireland’s revolutionary years between 1916 and 1923. Less known and performed are... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

The working class liberates itself: Review of ‘Joe Stafford: A Tale of Revolution’, by Charles Andrews.

29 June 2022 / 443

When is the last time you read an exciting story about the working class engaged in determined and successful struggle? This is just what Charles Andrews sets... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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