Jenny Farrell reviews Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha (Parthian, 2020) Awareness of working-class literature is only growing slowly in Ireland. This is... Continue reading
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When Jeremy The Wicked Ruled His World ‘Stick your hands up. This is a fucking robbery!’Two animal-masked men bounced up the steps of the tour bus with... Continue reading
Jan Woolf reviews the latest children’s book from Culture Matters In homage to Raymond Briggs’ classic book and animation The Snowman, this is a charming tale about... Continue reading
Razia Parveen reviews The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka is a powerful and politically potent narrative which subtly weaves... Continue reading
Jim Aitken unearths the radical and progressive meanings in Borges’ writings It was his fellow Argentinian writer and, like his mentor, a former Director of the National... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduce Liam O’Flaherty’s The Martyr, Nuascéalta 2020. Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novel The Martyr has just been republished by Nuascéalta, eighty-seven years since its first and only... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduces the famous anti-war book, as we near the 50th anniversary of Erich Maria Remarque’s death. Image by Photofest World War I was termed the war that... Continue reading
John Green reviews Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels. The above image is Hans Holbein’s 1530s portrait of Thomas Cromwell Hilary Mantel’s trilogy on the life of... Continue reading
13th October 2040 Dear Richard, I know it must be weird and more than slightly disturbing to receive a ‘letter from beyond the grave’, but I trust... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell gives the historical background to Boccaccio’s work The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million... Continue reading
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