Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Culture
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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Culture
“Yes I said yes”: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100
February 9, 2022Onward to Ulysses’ second century!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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