Blog – Page 66 – Culture Matters

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

3 April 2021 / 343

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

Jenny Farrell

Sport

Building a popular, progressive sporting culture

2 April 2021 / 448

Mark Perryman has been reading up on the sport we’ve lost, and what sport might become, as what seems like a never-ending lockdown gradually eases Way back... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Poetry

Plague Songs

31 March 2021 / 363

In May 2020 the award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson set himself the challenge of writing a Lockdown Diary in verse. The result is Plague Songs, a unique cycle of... Continue reading

Martin Rowson

Poetry

No Money in the Bank

25 March 2021 / 353

No Money in the Bank by Samantha Mansi No money in the bank. But how will we pay our bills? No money.The computer algorithmmessed up again. Why... Continue reading

mojohand

Poetry

Meeting the Irish, 1972Connemara by Edward Boyne We were hoovered-up off the known streetsby revving buses nervous in The Coombe,rushed at speed, through drowsy posh estates.It was... Continue reading

Edward Boyne

Whose Son Next?

17 March 2021 / 368

Whose Son Next? (i.m. Trayvon Martin 26th February 2012) by The Incident A boy’s walking back to his dad’s girlfriend’s place in Sanford, Floridawith a pack of Skittles,... Continue reading

Annie Wright

Visual Arts

For the Common Good

12 March 2021 / 328

Does History repeat itself . . . . . .? In the past, heroes used to do the undoable to become the savior of their time. Today... Continue reading

Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie

Poetry

A great struggle to set something free: Ox poems

9 March 2021 / 334

Martin Hayes presents 5 poems from Ox, his new collection. All images by Gustavius Payne Ox trust the oxen bought tickets to the annual oxen versus goats football... Continue reading

Martin Hayes

Films

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

4 March 2021 / 305

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

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

The radical imagery of William Blake

2 March 2021 / 414

Caroline Anjali Ritchie discusses William Blake, trees, and 18th-century radicalism. Image above: The Divine Image, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience Poet and artist William Blake... Continue reading

Caroline Ritchie

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