What purpose do the arts serve today? The arts – Music, literature, painting, sculpture, dance etc. – represent vibrant aspects of human culture. They don’t provide us... Continue reading
the limits of (my) sympathy by Fran Lock, with image above by kennardphillips exhorted to remember her humanity, as if humanity itself were some vaguely miraculous quality,... Continue reading
This book, edited by Gregor Gall, is both a timely and ambitious work that seeks to take Scotland further forward along the road to self-determination. It is... Continue reading
Our final video in our ‘Culture for All‘ series of short films, sponsored by the CWU, features Professor Selina Todd talking about why culture matters. Why Culture... Continue reading
Over the last year Culture Matters has been commissioning a series of short films about cultural democracy, called culture for all. The films cover a range of... Continue reading
My maternal grandmother passed away at 2 am on February 14, 2022. For her funeral, I went to Bihar where my grief was socialized among the many... Continue reading
2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Scots Language Society, set up to encourage and promote the use of Scots Language. In 2021 a... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell pays tribute to Tomás Mac Síomóin and reviews From One Bright Island Flown – Irish Rebels, Exiles,and Martyrs in Latin America, Nuascéalta, 2022 Tomás Mac Síomóin... Continue reading
In December 2018, Ian Lewis, a steel worker from Port Talbot in South Wales, woke to an early Christmas present – an artwork by world-renowned street artist... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell’s presentation to the recent conference in Dublin on working-class writing In an unprecedented venture, Culture Matters published a trilogy of anthologies of contemporary Irish working... Continue reading