Luke Callinan reviews Black 47, a film which reminds us of the brutal and inhuman nature of colonisation. Lance Daly’s Black 47, which was released in September 2018,... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell memorialises Victor Jara. Forty-five years ago, on 11 September 1973, the Chilean military under the command of General Pinochet and backed by the USA, overthrew... Continue reading
Kipling Buildings With some debt to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ by Alan Morrison If you can keep your head when all about youAre spy cameras, a deliberate delayOf... Continue reading
Chris Guiton reviews the new CD by Barnstormer 1649. Restoration Tragedy, the great new album by Attila the Stockbroker’s band, Barnstormer 1649, centres on the events of... Continue reading
Keith Flett offers some ideas on how a socialist Labour government could improve our drinking culture. In the stimulating essay on Culture for the Many, not the Few:... Continue reading
Other articles in this section of Culture Matters have dealt with the revolutionary strands and meanings, often deeply buried, in various religions. Here, Sean Ledwith reviews Terry... Continue reading
Adam Shehada introduces one of his artworks. This drawing is called Al Nakba, which is the Arabic for Disaster. I drew it from a photograph, using pencil... Continue reading
Ed Edwards contributes an essay on the political background to his brilliant new play, after a short review by Mike Quille. The Review: An outstanding dramatisation of... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews a new German film about the rise of fascism in Germany. Winner of the Golden Globe for best foreign language film, In the Fade... Continue reading
It Suits a Narrative by Rita Ann Higgins It suits a narrative of the ‘big, bad stateand the ‘big bad religious congregations’,– Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua... Continue reading