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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]
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
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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