Ireland
Ireland expected to be first in new wave of governments recognizing Palestinian state
April 12, 2024Public sentiment for Palestine is fed by the historic memory of 800 years of struggling for a free state while under British colonial rule.
Read moreIrish peace movement joins global opposition to Israel’s war against Palestine
December 6, 2023Mass pro-Palestinian sentiment is the norm in Dublin.
Read moreNew book surveys life of Seán O’Casey, great Irish playwright and lifelong communist
October 27, 2023While the study is an important one for O’Casey scholars to be aware of, it is refreshingly equally directed at readers beyond academia.
Read moreSean O’Casey’s three revolutionary plays staged in New York and Ann Arbor
October 3, 2023Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people. In Ireland, O’Casey is (unfairly) best...
Read moreNovel ‘Strumpet City’ depicts 1913 Dublin lockout, Irish proletariat’s first great class struggle
August 25, 2023Though it is plagued by major gaps when it comes to portraying the struggle for national liberation going on at the same time, James Plunkett’s book is still a major read.
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