Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Marlene Dietrich, remembered for her outspoken stand against fascism
May 10, 2022She must be remembered not only for her importance as role model for emancipation, but also for her outspoken and active stand against the Nazi movement that had overtaken her homeland.
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Guernica
April 26, 2022There are a handful of pictures that may be said to be almost universally known. They include Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Picasso’s Guernica.
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Alexandra Kollontai at 150: International Communist leader and fighter for women’s liberation
March 31, 2022As People’s Commissar for Social Affairs in Soviet Russia, Kollantai was the first woman in history to serve in a government Cabinet.
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Georg Weerth, first poet of the German working class, on his bicentennial
February 16, 2022“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet...” So wrote Frederick Engels in 1883 on his friend Georg Weerth, who came into the world 200 years ago.
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“Yes I said yes”: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100
February 9, 2022Onward to Ulysses’ second century!
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‘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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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.
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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.
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