Children are shrinking before us by Owen Gallagher And when they cut budgets again, for families and schools,we on the opposition benches said: ‘Surelythey can’t cut them... Continue reading
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“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet, the son of Rhineland parents, was born in Detmold, where his father was church superintendent. In 1843, when... Continue reading
Gabriel Rosenstock presents a bilingual tanka, in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in response to an artwork (above) by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to... Continue reading
On the 210th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, 7 February 1812, Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin writes about Dickens, how social realist cinema has filmed his books, and how modern society... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell celebrates Joyce‘s Ulysses, on the centenary of its publication On James Joyce’s 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach in Paris published his now most famous work, Ulysses,... Continue reading
Christmas In Belfast, 1991 by Owen Gallagher Before mass, the milk runs, the paper rounds,she hauled her son in through the door.The soldiers returned to barracks for... Continue reading
This video was produced by Stephen Gargan. See also here for an article by Jenny Farrell on Kinsella’s poem Continue reading
Gabriel Rosenstock presents a bilingual haiku, in Irish and English, in response to a photograph by Alain Schroeder Little Brickmaker of Bangladesh carrying the weight of... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell gives the background to Robert Ballagh’s new painting, marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday When Robert Ballagh, the outstanding contemporary Irish painter, found a... Continue reading
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