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
Keith Flett wades into the culture war around Brewdog, its toxic workplace culture and Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity issues in the world of craft beer. Image above... 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
Luke Callinan sketches the life of Constance Farrington (see image above), translator of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Last month marked 70 years since the passing of... Continue reading
David Douglass review Colliers: Northumberland’s Pitmen and Their Football League Team, by Jon Tait, Rough Badger Press ISBN 9798532247727 The coalfields of the 20’s were a hotbed... Continue reading
Jim Aitken analyses the links between philosophical and cultural relativism, anti-intellectualism and far right politics, in a wide-ranging, discursive essay. The image above is of the Night of the... Continue reading
It is a difficult period in craft beer, globally. With many of the well-known craft brewers now quite sizeable and moving into a second decade of operations,... Continue reading