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Dubai Superlatives: The Power of Excessive Wealth

10 April 2023 / 444

Questions From a Worker Who Reads (by Bertolt Brecht, 1935) Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?In the books you will read the names of kings.Did the... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Music

AVzounds: Radical Speech & Radical Beats

5 April 2023 / 341

AVzounds is a new music project combining poetry with lo-fi hip-hop and electronic beats. Manifesto, AVzounds’ first piece, set parts of The Communist Manifesto to music and got a... Continue reading

Doc Ritchie

Poetry

Your Penance: A Decade In Sales

1 April 2023 / 363

Your Penance: A Decade In Sales* by P. W. Bridgeman I. Hail Mary, full of grace,the Lord is with thee.Blessèd art thou amongst womenand blessèd is the... Continue reading

P. W. Bridgman

Theatre

Sean O’Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman

1 April 2023 / 448

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

Poetry

the screams of the supervisors

1 April 2023 / 314

the screams of the supervisors by Martin Hayes you can’t always decipher what the screams of the supervisors meanso numerous are they sometimes they sound like moos... Continue reading

Martin Hayes

Films

Changing Society: Nature, Life, and Resistance in Culture Today

1 April 2023 / 328

Caoimhghin O Croidheain reviews Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) and White Tiger (2021) “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free“― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (Elective Affinities, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809)... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Poetry

Ward 72, Room 21

28 March 2023 / 307

Ward 72, Room 21 by Jim Aitken Through the large hospital windowthere are mountains of grey cloudwhich resemble the state of my lungs. Though happy enough to... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Poetry, labour, and the dream of a General Strike

24 March 2023 / 314

The last – the only – general strike to take place in Britain was in May 1926. The strike was called by the TUC in support of... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Bernard’s Good Record

21 March 2023 / 318

Bernard’s Good Record by John Freeman A fairly good record, says the manager. It’s a very good record, Bernard says. Off for two weeks after Christmas this... Continue reading

John Freeman

Cultural Commentary

Every St Patrick’s Day, Everywhere, All at Once: A Disaster for Ireland

16 March 2023 / 396

March 17 is traditionally St Patrick’s Day, a day when ‘Irishness’ is celebrated all over the world. This date is traditionally held to be the date of... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

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