Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
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Riding out the storms from Zorro to Montoneros
REVOLUTION ON THEIR MIND: (L to R) Rodolfo Walsh and Peter Paul Rubens: Portrait of a Young Man in Armour, 1620 - reputedly William Lamport, aka Guillen Lombardo, aka ‘Zorro’
CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May
MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
From One Bright Island Flown
Irish Rebels, Exiles and Martyrs in Latin America
by Tomas Mac Siomoin
Nuascealta, £7.30
THE defeat of the Gaelic Irish, supported by Spanish forces, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601, was the final blow in the English conquest of Ireland and a watershed in Irish history.
Following this, a great number of the aristocratic and military leaders of Gaelic Ireland fled the country to escape criminalisation by the colonising English.
This brought with it the rapid decline of the Gaelic society and culture, eventually leading to the near destruction of the Irish language.
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