A student production of Waiting for Godot. Image: Public domain. By Jenny Farrell April this year marks the 120th anniversary of Beckett’s birth. In this article I... Continue reading
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Commons image By Jenny Farrell On this 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising, we remember the first anti‑imperialist uprising in Europe – a moment when Ireland’s long... Continue reading
Los Desastres de la Guerra, by Francisco Goya, 1810-1820. Image: Wikimedia commons By Jenny Farrell At the threshold of the imperialist era, when the revolutionary promises of... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell Yet another Frankenstein film has made its way to the screen. Despite critical acclaim and projected awards, it has little in common with Mary... Continue reading
Jack London, standing: Public Domain portrait photograph By Jenny Farrell Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic... Continue reading
Book available here By Jenny Farrell Sean O’Casey’s only daughter and now sole surviving child, Shivaun, has given the worldwide O’Casey community a splendid memoir of her... Continue reading
The book is available here By Jenny Farrell Leila Majaj Kirkconnell’s Under the Same Sky is more than a novel; it is a monumental work of witness... Continue reading
Every One Still Here – Stories, by Liadán Ní Chuinn, Granta 2025, £14.99; The Stinging Fly, €12.00. By Jenny Farrell Liadán Ní Chuinn’s stunning short story collection... Continue reading
Our Culture is a new series from Culture Matters exploring the relationship between culture and capitalism through a Marxist and dialectical lens. The series investigates how capitalism... Continue reading
Northodox Press, 2025 By Jenny Farrell Literature often offers perspectives on history ignored by mainstream narratives. Crime writing, in particular, has long been used to explore working-class... Continue reading
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