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EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Living in an Armed Patriarchy by Lynda Walker
Essential reading on the women’s liberation struggle in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s on
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
THIS booklet by Lynda Walker goes back to the years from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, years that shook the north of Ireland profoundly in many ways.
In exploring the experience of the dispossessed from their own point of view, hers is the kind of writing about past events that departs from mainstream bourgeois history and she records aspects of their suffering and resistance with a compassion reflecting her personal involvement.
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A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH