GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
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]
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
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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