Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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Look! It’s a Woman Writer: Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020
Challenges to ongoing gender bias in Irish literary mainstream
DEFYING EXPECTATIONS: Celia de Freine
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
“AND PERHAPS, before literature dies, there will come a day when no-one notices an author’s gender or race but says only ‘I have just read an astonishing, unforgettable book by a fantastic human writer.’ I plan to live to see this.”
So writes Mary Dorcey in this collection of writings which reaches beyond the current experiences described to a future where such full equality of gender, race and class is achieved that they no longer spell marginalisation and exclusion from the cultural mainstream.
The 21 poets, fiction writers and playwrights in the book tell how they became the writers they are. Coming from the whole island of Ireland, they write in both Irish and English and are from a range of social backgrounds.
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