Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Culture
Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’: A beloved piece of music for children
April 19, 2021This musical fairy tale, just under half an hour in length, is a surprisingly successful example of Socialist Realism, the newly promoted Soviet esthetic of the 1930s.
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Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Toward ‘a social order worthy of the human race’
March 3, 2021Remembering Red Rosa on her 150th birthday.
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Culture
John Keats – A Revolutionary Romantic
February 11, 2021John Keats is one of the greatest writers in English. His revolutionary vision reaches far into the future.
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The revolutionary history of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
December 8, 2020Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the democratic longing of the people.
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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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Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
September 21, 2020All Quiet on the Western Front has lost none of its power. It is an outstandingly sensitive depiction of the effect murderous warfare has on the human psyche. We still need books like this.
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Writing at a time of plague: Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarca, Chaucer
August 14, 2020The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million people.
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