As a young child sitting close to the front of a bus with my grandfather in West Cork I was quietly informed that the elderly person who had just boarded was Tom Barry. Sean Sheehan He looked like another ordinary old man to me and his name did […]
Culture
Last times
Victor Serge’s life was hugely eventful and his critical mind, without being bound by a priori opinions of a narrow kind, took note of what was happening around him. Sean Sheehan He was drawn to anarchist thought and but when the October Revolution occurred in 1917 he understood […]
Tales from Cuba to Italy
Behind the camera she is determined to narrate the life of her homeland and its inhabitants. And so she has done with her films “La Machetera” and “Herradura”, which today form part of the film history where ordinary people talk about their reality and where women stand up for their […]
Going concerns
Reading “The bloater”, a novel of less than 150 pages, is like sipping a glass of sparkling champagne after been deprived of the drink’s recuperative quality for too long. Sean Sheehan Its air of easy frivolousness feels life-enhancing, as does the wickedly delicious prose of Rosemary Tonks in […]
The art of loving & Get out
Coco Green and Ola Magdziarek review a couple of cinematic highlights from 2017: Maria Sadowska’s “Art Of Loving”, which tells the story of Polish sexologist Michalina Wislocka who fought for her book to be published in the late 1970s, and Jordan Peele’s “Get out”, in which Daniel Kaluuya’s African American […]
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