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Why Culture Matters

31 May 2022 / 329

Our final video in our ‘Culture for All‘ series of short films, sponsored by the CWU, features Professor Selina Todd talking about why culture matters. Why Culture... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

Culture for All

23 March 2022 / 284

Over the last year Culture Matters has been commissioning a series of short films about cultural democracy, called culture for all. The films cover a range of... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

Capitalism and Death

21 March 2022 / 287

My maternal grandmother passed away at 2 am on February 14, 2022. For her funeral, I went to Bihar where my grief was socialized among the many... Continue reading

Yanis Iqbal

Cultural Commentary

The Future of the Scots Language

24 February 2022 / 285

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

Cultural Commentary

Tomás Mac Síomóin: From One Bright Island Flown

19 February 2022 / 284

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

Cultural Commentary

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

16 February 2022 / 396

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

Cultural Commentary

Class-based barriers to cultural production

13 February 2022 / 303

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

Cultural Commentary

Art and the Garage

10 February 2022 / 291

Coming back from a night shift I’m dropped at a garage on the edge of town. I’ll wait there for my lift home. Inside I can sit... Continue reading

Joseph Horgan

Cultural Commentary

The struggle to decolonise the mind: Frantz Fanon and his Irish translator, Constance Farrington

15 January 2022 / 311

Luke Callinan sketches the life of Constance Farrington (see image above), translator of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Last month marked 70 years since the passing of... Continue reading

Luke Callinan

Cultural Commentary

Philosophy, cultural relativism, anti-intellectualism and the far right

26 December 2021 / 423

Jim Aitken analyses the links between philosophical and cultural relativism, anti-intellectualism and far right politics, in a wide-ranging, discursive essay. The image above is of the Night of the... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

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