Blog – Page 54 – Culture Matters

A Timeline of Women: Letting Go, by Gerda Stevenson

26 February 2022 / 354

A short story collection can, in certain respects, be seen as similar to a poetry collection. If the individual stories, like the individual poems, are well conceived... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Cultural Commentary

The Future of the Scots Language

24 February 2022 / 321

2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Scots Language Society, set up to encourage and promote the use of Scots Language. In 2021 a... Continue reading

William Hershaw

Music

Gutsy, Punkish Sound-Bombs: On the Radicalism of Fontaines D.C.

23 February 2022 / 348

On a red carpet in February 2020, Grian Chatten, the front-man and vocalist for Fontaines D.C., was asked about the recent general election in Ireland, which had... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Music

Three contemporary working-class composers of classical music

20 February 2022 / 479

Classical music does not really know how to deal with the working class – either as listeners or as artists working in it. My articles in the... Continue reading

Ben Lunn

Cultural Commentary

Tomás Mac Síomóin: From One Bright Island Flown

19 February 2022 / 318

Jenny Farrell pays tribute to Tomás Mac Síomóin and reviews From One Bright Island Flown – Irish Rebels, Exiles,and Martyrs in Latin America, Nuascéalta, 2022 Tomás Mac Síomóin... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Two poems about this callous government, from Owen Gallagher

17 February 2022 / 310

Children are shrinking before us by Owen Gallagher And when they cut budgets again, for families and schools,we on the opposition benches said: ‘Surelythey can’t cut them... Continue reading

Owen Gallagher

Cultural Commentary

Banksy’s ‘Season’s Greetings’ and a lesson in the commodification of art

16 February 2022 / 436

In December 2018, Ian Lewis, a steel worker from Port Talbot in South Wales, woke to an early Christmas present – an artwork by world-renowned street artist... Continue reading

Rebecca Lowe

Eating & Drinking

Culture Wars in Beer

13 February 2022 / 445

Keith Flett wades into the culture war around Brewdog, its toxic workplace culture and Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity issues in the world of craft beer. Image above... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Cultural Commentary

Class-based barriers to cultural production

13 February 2022 / 339

Jenny Farrell’s presentation to the recent conference in Dublin on working-class writing In an unprecedented venture, Culture Matters published a trilogy of anthologies of contemporary Irish working... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Georg Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet

12 February 2022 / 304

“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet, the son of Rhineland parents, was born in Detmold, where his father was church superintendent. In 1843, when... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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