The latest Lookleft is out, and it’s a good one. There are articles in it that should appeal to the historyheads, with pieces on the great Máirtín Ó Cadhain and The Irish Worker newspaper. On other fronts there are pieces on issues as diverse as Dublin street-art, international politics and more besides. This here parish is well represented with a piece on the emerging late night (why stop at 2:30am?) music scene in Dublin and a match night report on the southside Dublin derby between Saints and Hoops. It’s available from Easons, Books Upstairs and the vendors on O’Connell Street.
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The latest History Ireland should be arriving in newsagents and bookshops around Ireland this week. In it, you’ll find a brief piece from me on the role of Dublin firefighters in assisting Belfast following the bombings of that city during World War II.
The men were warmly welcomed to the city, with the Irish Independent of April 18th noting that “the fire brigades which attended from Éire have been greatly praised for their work, and as they passed through the city’s streets homeward bound after their errand of mercy they were heartily cheered by a grateful people.”
History Ireland are over on Facebook now by the way. My mother is perhaps the only person I know in real life still missing from the Facebook revolution.
Red Pepper April/May is still knocking about with a piece on radical Dublin in it. It’s available from Books Upstairs among other places. A British publication, I suppose it’s always nice to be given a platform from which to tell outsiders “Rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
Another great Look Left cover. That magazine is really developing.
Some top stuff in that new lookleft.
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