Rebel’s Guide to Marxism: Strategies for Liberation
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Macklemore and the Politics of Celebrity Resistance
American rapper Macklemore played the first of his Free Palestine Tour performances at a sold out 3Arena in Dublin on the October bank holiday. The high-profile fundraising concert was punctuated by performances from Kneecap, Palestinian singer and TV talent show winner Lina Makoul, DJ Habibeatz, and Dead Prez. It
The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence
‘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
Feminisation of the Working Class: New Militancy?
When 300,000 public sector workers went out on strike, the majority were women. The picket lines were living proof of how much our workforce has become feminised. The increase in the number of women in paid work here is relatively recent, and quite dramatic. According to the latest CSO
What the Zuck? Meta Boss Buys a Castle in Waterford
A 16,000-square-foot fortress in County Waterford, overlooking the River Blackwater, Strancally Castle sits on top of a jagged river cliff historically known in Irish as Srón Chaillí—“The Hag’s Nose.” For centuries, local folklore whispered dark tales of a medieval trapdoor here, where unwary travellers were