Ireland
Northern Ireland youth coerced into violent acts
April 15, 2021Children are often victims of gangs linked to sectarian paramilitary groups.
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Brexit problems, paramilitary gangs contribute to violence in Northern Ireland
April 13, 2021Five cities across Northern Ireland experience some of the worst violence since the 1970s.
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‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’
March 9, 2021The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.
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A statue in verse for Friedrich Engels’s partner Mary Burns
November 25, 2020There can be little doubt that Mary Burns was instrumental in introducing Engels to the horrendous conditions of the Manchester proletariat. She knew intimately the conditions of families at work and in their typhus- and cholera-stricken...
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Last of Communist Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novels sees the light in Ireland
October 20, 2020O’Flaherty always wrote from the point of view of the ordinary people, fishermen, peasants, workers. His last novel was no different.
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