Ireland
‘The Thirtieth of January’: Crime and tragedy commemorated in a historical painting
January 28, 2022When Robert Ballagh found a growing need to make a statement on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he felt drawn to paintings that had impacted him in the past.
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Collective punishment, indiscriminate shooting: Bloody Sunday in Derry 50 years ago
January 28, 2022On Sunday, January 30, 1972, a British Parachute regiment carried out a massacre of 14 peaceful demonstrators at an anti-internment march in the Catholic district of the Bogside.
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Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial
October 21, 2021Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.
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‘Shuggie Bain’, tale of Scottish working-class life under Thatcherism, wins Booker Prize
July 30, 2021Alcoholism and its effect on people and communities is explored from the perspective of a loving and protective child, who observes all the secrecies, shame, and suicidal self-hate it brings.
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Northern Ireland youth coerced into violent acts
April 15, 2021Children are often victims of gangs linked to sectarian paramilitary groups.
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