Jenny Farrell – Page 6 – Culture Matters

Shuggie Bain and working-class writing

24 August 2021 / 351

Jenny Farrell review Douglas Stuart’s new novel Douglas Stuart won the 2020 Booker prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain, set in his home town of Glasgow... Continue reading

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Fiction

Walter Scott and the historical novel

26 July 2021 / 457

On his 250th anniversary, Jenny Farrell writes about Walter Scott and his historical novels, uncovering themes of class conflict, ethnic and nationalist struggles, and how the personal... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020

9 July 2021 / 364

Jenny Farrell reviews a new book on the fight to write by women writers in Ireland And perhaps, before literature dies, there will come a day when... Continue reading

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Fiction

Apeirogon

18 June 2021 / 364

Jenny Farrell reviews Apeirogon by Colum McCann Unlike a pentagon, an apeirogon has an infinite number of sides, or aspects. The title of Colum McCann’s 2020 novel... Continue reading

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Visual Arts

Albrecht Dürer – Champion of the Peasants

15 May 2021 / 428

Jenny Farrell writes about Albrecht Dürer, who made art in supported of the democratic movements of his time Albrecht Dürer was born 550 years ago, on 21... Continue reading

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Poetry

In future we will turn the guns on you

10 May 2021 / 287

Jenny Farrell marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune As we mark the 150th anniversary of the French proletariat’s heroic first bid to set up La... Continue reading

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Music

Prokofiev and Peter and the Wolf

22 April 2021 / 339

Jenny Farrell introduces Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”, one of the most famous pieces of music for children ever written Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev is among the... Continue reading

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Poetry

Easter 1916 and Maeve Cavanagh, ‘poetess of the revolution’

3 April 2021 / 341

Jenny Farrell introduces Maeve Cavanagh and presents one of her poems Last Easter, we published some poems written by three leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.... Continue reading

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Films

‘Towards a social order worthy of the human race’: Rosa Luxemburg’s 150th anniversary

4 March 2021 / 304

Jenny Farrell presents and discusses Margarethe von Trotta’s film about Rosa Luxemburg On 5 March 2021, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth. No one... Continue reading

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Poetry

John Keats: Revolutionary Romantic

11 February 2021 / 346

Jenny Farrell marks the 200th anniversary of Keats’s death. The image above is of Keats on his deathbed, by his friend Joseph Severn G. B. Shaw stated... Continue reading

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