Culture
‘The Fallen’ by Louise Brangan, an Irish academic based in Edinburgh, was published earlier this year. In her introduction, the author tells us that she “wanted to write the history of the Magdalene Laundries from the perspective of the women and girls who had been subjected to it,” but she
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As people around the world protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mary Smith draws some lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Campaign against South Africa, arguing that more urgently than ever, we need to build a global BDS movement against Israel. The scale and barbarity of the Holocaust can be
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Focusing on the political influences of the time, and the impact these women had on the political movements they were part of, Mary Smith looks back at the women of Ireland’s Easter Rising, seeking to add to the long neglected ‘herstory’ of the period. Mollie O’Reilly was sent