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The language of the poor, of the most marginal and disdained: This Road of Mine, by Seosamh Mac Grianna

4 January 2021 / 372

Jenny Farrell introduces This Road of Mine, by Seosamh Mac Grianna, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha. Published by The Lilliput Press, 2020. One of several important, socialist Irish language writers of the... Continue reading

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Fiction

A working-class voice from the Irish language tradition: Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh

4 January 2021 / 364

Jenny Farrell reviews Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha (Parthian, 2020) Awareness of working-class literature is only growing slowly in Ireland. This is... Continue reading

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Music

A proclamation of universal human community: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

4 December 2020 / 365

Jenny Farrell discusses Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of his birth Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

A statue in verse for Mary Burns, Engels’s partner

24 October 2020 / 332

Jenny Farrell writes about Mary and Lizzie Burns. Friedrich Engels, whose 200th birthday falls 28 November 2020, had a very personal connection with Ireland. The moment he... Continue reading

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Poetry

Rathlin: In memory of Derek Mahon

5 October 2020 / 342

Jenny Farrell memorialises Derek Mahon by presenting a reading of his poem Rathlin, bringing out its political message and artistic skill Derek Mahon died on 1 October.... Continue reading

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Fiction

The Martyr: the last of Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novels to see the light in Ireland

2 October 2020 / 442

Jenny Farrell introduce Liam O’Flaherty’s The Martyr, Nuascéalta 2020. Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novel The Martyr has just been republished by Nuascéalta, eighty-seven years since its first and only... Continue reading

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Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front

15 September 2020 / 384

Jenny Farrell introduces the famous anti-war book, as we near the 50th anniversary of Erich Maria Remarque’s death. Image by Photofest World War I was termed the war that... Continue reading

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Fiction

Giovanni Boccaccio, writing at a time of plague

4 August 2020 / 373

Jenny Farrell gives the historical background to Boccaccio’s work The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million... Continue reading

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Fiction

The Gadfly: An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries

6 July 2020 / 362

Jenny Farrell remembers Ethel Voynich, who died 60 years ago this month, and who wrote The Gadfly – An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries Liam Mellows read this novel of... Continue reading

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Fiction

The Gael becomes Irish: the long-term consequences of colonisation

19 May 2020 / 356

Jenny Farrell reviews Tomás Mac Síomóin’s The Gael Becomes Irish: An Unfinished Odyssey, Nuascéalta, 2020. “The Gael Becomes Irish”is Tomás Mac Síomóin’s latest publication, and it continues... Continue reading

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