MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Riding out the storms from Zorro to Montoneros
REVOLUTION ON THEIR MIND: (L to R) Rodolfo Walsh and Peter Paul Rubens: Portrait of a Young Man in Armour, 1620 - reputedly William Lamport, aka Guillen Lombardo, aka ‘Zorro’
[(L to R) Marco Rodriguez Garrido /creative Commons and Wikipedia] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
From One Bright Island Flown
Irish Rebels, Exiles and Martyrs in Latin America
by Tomas Mac Siomoin
Nuascealta, £7.30
THE defeat of the Gaelic Irish, supported by Spanish forces, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601, was the final blow in the English conquest of Ireland and a watershed in Irish history.
Following this, a great number of the aristocratic and military leaders of Gaelic Ireland fled the country to escape criminalisation by the colonising English.
This brought with it the rapid decline of the Gaelic society and culture, eventually leading to the near destruction of the Irish language.
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