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The arts, trade unions, and working-class identity

5 May 2020 / 424

Anthony D. Padgett reflects on the arts, trade unions, and working-class identity “Hold tight” I call as we ride on my vintage motorcycle through the steep terraced... Continue reading

Anthony D. Padgett

Visual Arts

The unflinching radicalism of Kim James

30 April 2020 / 428

Nick Wright remembers Kim James’ materialist approach to art What strikes me most about Kim James’ place in the discourses around art, creativity and consciousness is his... Continue reading

Nick Wright

Poetry

‘The life I lived was a woman’s life’: Eavan Boland, one of Ireland’s finest poets

28 April 2020 / 394

Jenny Farrell remembers the life and work of the late Eavan Boland Eavan Boland died on 27 April 2020. She ranks among Ireland’s finest poets, and was... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

Robert Tressell’s 150th anniversary

19 April 2020 / 410

Robert Tressell was born 150 years ago, on 17 April 1870 – see here Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

The precarious lives of working people: Hokusai’s Return

16 April 2020 / 351

Hokusai’s Return by Chris Nash Rowers bent over in labourand reaching for a nowherewhere you can / you cannotdrive further, drive throughoshiokuri bune frail prows,oars in rhyme... Continue reading

Chris Nash

Poetry

Easter Rising 1916: The Wayfarer, by Pádraig Pearse

10 April 2020 / 335

Jenny Farrell presents the final poem in the series of poems written by the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. It is Pádraig Pearse’s “The Wayfarer”.... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Easter Rising 1916: Die Taube, by Joseph Plunkett

10 April 2020 / 333

Jenny Farrell presents the third poem written by the poet-leaders of the Irish Easter Rebellion in 1916. It is Joseph Plunkett’s “Die Taube”, written in 1915. Engagement... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Easter Rising 1916: The Man Upright, by Thomas MacDonagh

10 April 2020 / 335

Jenny Farrell presents the second of the four poems written by leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, the first anti-imperialist uprising in Europe. Here is Thomas MacDonagh’s “The... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Easter Rising 1916: Mise Éire / I am Ireland by Pádraig Pearse

10 April 2020 / 346

Jenny Farrell introduces a short series of poems and commentary to mark the Easter Rising 1916 Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ireland will for the first time... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Guerilla Christ

8 April 2020 / 360

Guerilla Christ, By Alfredo Rostgaard féachann sé isteachi gcroí gach caipitlí –Críost treallchogaí he sees into the heartof every capitalist –guerrilla Christ he seis intae the herto... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

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