Jenny Farrell reviews Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O’Brien Anybody who has come across the work of independent scholar and critic Paul O’Brien knows... Continue reading
Ukraine is a bilingual poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, inspired by Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War) by Karl Wiener (see above, Public Domain... Continue reading
Culture Matters is proud to commemorate Black History Month 2023 and mark National Poetry Day with the first of four new poems by the award-winning writer Jenny... Continue reading
Holberrys is a play about two Sheffield Chartists, Samuel and Mary Holberry, who helped organise the betrayed ‘physical force’ insurrection in the city in January 1840. Samuel,... Continue reading
Peace for all those alive: peace for all lands and all waters. ************** In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his... Continue reading
How and when the body collapses by Fran Lock / there’s a breach in the breath./ in that which surrounds and circulates./ in the warm gulf between... Continue reading
Academia by Jenny Mitchell, with above image by Chad McCail This is not a campus for the poor. The posh,in drab designer clothes, labels on the outside... Continue reading
Seán O’Casey – the first proletarian dramatist writing in English – made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of... Continue reading
I began writing this quarterly column looking for reasons to stay ‘hopeful’, whatever that means. I used to know. Or else, I thought I did: something like... Continue reading