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
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Lyndsey Ayre reflects on common ground, coronavirus, and the values of the labour movement. The image is of a piece of embroidery by Melanie Kyles This must... Continue reading
Dennis Broe traces the links between class and the coronavirus, and parallels in cultural works. Plus ca change…….. In many ways the rearrangement of life in the... Continue reading
Robert Tressell was born 150 years ago, on 17 April 1870 – see here Continue reading
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
David Betteridge takes us along Glasgow’s Byres Road, enjoying several works of public art by the late Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December, 2019, the day after his... Continue reading
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 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 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 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
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