Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
-
Culture
‘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.
Read more -
Culture
Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’
January 24, 2022Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.
Read more -
World
Evidence directly implicates British state in Northern Ireland murders
January 21, 2022A new report shows proof British officials at the highest level were involved in overseeing the terror in Northern Ireland.
Read more -
Culture
On ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ prompted by film director Joel Coen’s latest iteration
January 21, 2022Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern.
Read more -
Culture
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature
December 7, 2021Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Read more -
Culture
Sally Rooney: In search of the Marxist novel
December 6, 2021In Rooney’s work, the political manifests itself in the depiction of alienated relationships alongside explicit political statements.
Read more -
Culture
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.
Read more -
Culture
Recalling Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) and his ‘Language of the Third Reich’
October 7, 2021Victor Klemperer is remembered for his seminal study of the language of the Nazis.
Read more