Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Sean O’Casey’s ‘The Shadow of a Gunman’ at 100
April 3, 2023He was the first English-speaking playwright of proletarian origin to enter the stage of the world theatre.
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Alexandra Kollontai: International Communist leader and fighter for women’s liberation
March 31, 2023As 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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‘Siblings’: An East German novella reminds us of what had once been possible
March 6, 2023It comes 60 years after the original German novella appeared. The translator is Lucy Jones.
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Brendan Behan on the centenary of his birth
February 7, 2023Brendan Behan was arguably one of the last writers to emerge from the Irish literary revival movement.
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‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: An ahistorical film that rings hollow
January 18, 2023International film awards are by no means a good film guide. This applies to The Banshees of Inisherin as much as to the rest of them.
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George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’: A study in working-class literature
November 9, 2022Highlighted at the award ceremony was “his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.”
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Herstory: Unmanageable revolutionaries, women and the Irish national struggle
August 29, 2022Margaret Ward has done much to retrieve Herstory from the claws of History, a truly important achievement.
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On the bicentennial of Shelley’s death: Evolution of a working-class poet
July 12, 2022Next to Burns, Shelley had the greatest influence on 19th-century working-class literature in England. His vision applies undiminished today.
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