Everyone will have seen the image of a defiant Trump, his ear and cheek blood-spattered, being rushed off stage by Secret Service agents at an open-air campaign rally in Pennsylvania.   Sean Sheehan   At the time of the attempted assassination, July 2024, Trump was a former president of the […]

It is true but simplistic to say the Irish Great Famine (1845-1851) was caused by a potato blight that struck Europe. The reaction of the governing colonial power, Britain, allows for asking whether the famine was an act of genocide.   Sean Sheehan    A new book by Padraic X. […]

The political situation that the narrative of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The white guard” is rooted in was as volatile as it was exciting.    Sean Sheehan   There were two revolutions in Russia in 1917 but it is the second one that earns its capital letters. The October Revolution brought the […]

Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is one of those paintings you probably cannot remember where and how you saw it for the first time.   Sean Sheehan   Like the “Mona Lisa” it has already and always been there and now, instantly logged when seen again, probably does not receive much […]