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Vampires and capitalism, remakes and gimmicks: Odin O’Sullivan reviews Robert Eggers’ update to a classic of the horror genre, Nosferatu. In Capital: Volume 1, Karl Marx, in a suitably gothic turn of phrase, notes that “capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and
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In Part 2 of his Ireland and Slavery series, Brian Kelly assesses Ireland’s involvement in the international slave trade, arguing that the country’s colonial subjection has too often been omitted from the analysis. Part 1, ‘Irish Slaves’: Debunking the Myth, can be read here. The first instalment in
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In this first installment of a two-part series, historian Brian Kelly looks at the origins of the myth of Irish slavery, arguing that how we approach this period of history has revelance for the movements of today. Recently, social media has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish