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From Back to the Future, Far and Away, Ned Kelly, and beyond, the Irish diaspora on the Anglo-colonial frontier has long benefitted from the plucky underdog treatment in Hollywood. And, until Sinners ...

There is a lot of talk at the moment about the impact immigration had on the General Election results. Notably, the commentary is focused on anti-immigration arguments and the need for ‘tougher’ ...

For decades, Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid state has denied Palestinians the basic right to water. Water apartheid is a deliberate system of state-led policies that restrict a racialised ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...