Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne discuss the decline and colonisation of working-class culture, introduce The Acting Class and call for culture to be at the cutting edge of counter-hegemonic... Continue reading
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Jenny Farrell reviews a new anthology of working-class writing A History of Irish Working-Class Writing, edited by Michael Pierse (CUP 2017) is a book to be greatly welcomed. It... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell protests the decision only to charge one paratrooper, and introduces extracts from Thomas Kinsella’s poem, Butcher’s Dozen Shock and disbelief is the reaction of most... Continue reading
In honour of International Women’s Day, Jane Burn and Fran Lock present a free downloadable collection of poems from eighteen working women poets. IWWD_Eighteen_.pdf Continue reading
Jane Rosen writes about revolutionary children’s literature, based on the recent book she co-edited with Kimberley Reynolds and Michael Rosen, Reading and Rebellion: an Anthology of Radical... Continue reading
Jane Rosen introduces ‘Don’t Shoot Your Class!’, by Tom Anderson, first published in The Revolution, June 1918. It is extracted from Reading and Rebellion, an Anthology of... Continue reading
To mark International Women’s Day, Jenny Farrell reviews Pioneers of Women’s Emancipation in Ireland, by Priscilla Metscher Since times immemorial, people involved in the struggle for a... Continue reading
40 years on, Mark Perryman celebrates the release of the debut single from The Specials On the 3rd May 1979, Margaret Thatcher leads the Tories to a crushing... Continue reading
David Betteridge discusses the life and work of Alex Hamilton, 1949-2018. It is a companion piece to Jim Aitken’s essay-obituary of Tom Leonard. I This is not a... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus, the German art school started in 1919 Inspired by Germany’s November 1918 Revolution, which was ultimately crushed by the Social... Continue reading
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