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Let our memories run through our veins …
The grave of Federico García Lorca has never been found but it is believed that his remains lie in the hills to the north of Granada, Andalusia close to the town of Viznar. He was probably executed on...
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Review of Living Anarchism – José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist...
Living Anarchism – José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement by Chris Ealham [AK Press] Available here. This review first published in Ideas and Action (Oct 2017). On the cover of...
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The Road To Letterfract
Last year I gave a reading at Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway as a guest of Over The Edge. I read Capricorn, a short story I wrote about an elderly Irish exile, Hallisey, who has chosen to live in a remote...
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The Punk Bit …
I was a Stiff Little Fingers fan [c. 1980]The truth is my punk records were stolen many years ago and it was a blow. What that says about my state of mind or the state of my life back then –...
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Socialist whodunnits, the Catholic Church and being ‘left in the lurch’.
Occupy march, Cork 2011 Q: To Keep A Bird Singing begins during the Crash in 2010. Noelie and Hannah, two of the main characters in the story, are keeping their heads above water. We meet Noelie for...
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Don’t Worry, We’ll Be Back …
In the last number of years the Irish left has been involved in a number of significant victories – playing its part in the anti-water tax campaign, in the Marriage Equality referendum and in the...
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Alan MacSimóin 1957-2018
Glasnevin Cemetery 13/12/2018 Alan MacSimóin with Mary Muldowney [Photo: Donal Higgins] When a photo of Alan MacSimóin appeared on my phone screen on the morning of December 5th, 2018 I wondered if,...
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The Child They Killed
Dima Asaliyah, aged 11 In July I attended a protest in Cork to remember the children killed during the bombing of Gaza a few months earlier – in May 2021. About a hundred and fifty people attended the...
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Brave Little Sternums by Matt Broomfield
Fly on the Wall Press £10.99 + p&p Mural, linking the anarchist influences on Rojava Difficult and defiant are two words that come to mind on thinking about this new book of poems from Matt...
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About Enrique Marco Nadal – Spanish Civil War Veteran
Enrique was born in 1912. He served as the General Secretary of the National Federation of Railway Industries (an affiliate of the CNT) from 1931 to 1936. When the Spanish Civil War broke out he...
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