‘A Spiritual Act, A Holy Deed’

‘A Spiritual Act, A Holy Deed’

I wrote this tribute to Native American Indian Leonard Peltier in 2003 as he entered his twenty-eighth year of imprisonment. I included the feature in my 2004 book, Rebel Columns, and sent Leonard a signed copy with a personalised dedication but the prison authorities...
A man of immense peace and ease

A man of immense peace and ease

Martin Neary’s book, Madogue Memories, about his life in east Mayo, the perennial toil of maintaining the land, his having to seek work in England to support his small holding, is told with great humility and charm but with a certain melancholia. In his evocative...
O’Casey Revisited

O’Casey Revisited

An abbreviated version of this feature has already appeared online but this is a much fuller piece by the Galway-based lecturer and writer, Jenny Farrell, who is also an Associate Editor of Culture Matters. The sixtieth anniversary of Seán O’Casey’s death fell on 18...

Powerful Collection

Just read More Tales About Life, Love & Death by Paul Marauder, a collection of poems and flash fiction dedicated to the struggle of the Palestinian people and their suffering in Gaza. The writing is potent, visceral and personal, often in the first-person, and...
‘Morning Star’ Review

‘Morning Star’ Review

The recently published book—Rita—A Memoir—was reviewed in the Morning Star, the left-wing British daily newspaper which focuses on social, political and trade union issues. The reviewer is Richard Rudkin who served with the British Army in the North in the 1970s: AS a...