Documentary film: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024) is an extraordinary new documentary in cinemas at the moment that looks at the events leading up to the UN Security Council…
Category: Caoimhghin O Croidheain
Dr. Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin (pronounced Kee-veen O Cree-awn) is an Irish artist who has exhibited widely around Ireland. His work consists of drawings and paintings and features cityscapes of Dublin, images based on Irish history and other work with social/political themes. Caoimhghin studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin where he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. He subsequently undertook post-graduate study in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies in Dublin City University obtaining a Masters degree in Communications and Cultural Studies. Caoimhghin is an Irish speaker and holds a PhD in Language and Politics. He completed work in Dublin City University as a Post-Doctoral researcher on the TRASNA project (a web-based database of references to translations of Irish literature globally).
Review of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Killers of the Flower Moon is a recent epic movie set in the 1920s examining a series of murders of members of the Osage Nation who…
Abel Meeropol cited this photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930, as inspiring his poem. Meeropol published the poem under the title “Bitter Fruit” in January 1937 in The New York…
The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews used evergreen wreaths, garlands, and trees to symbolise their respect for nature and their belief in eternal life. The pagan Europeans worshipped trees and had the custom of decorating…
Snap-Apple Night, painted by Daniel Maclise in 1833, shows people feasting and playing divination games on Halloween in Ireland. It was inspired by a Halloween party he attended in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. …
“Just a short time ago it would have seemed like a Quixotic adventure in the colonised, neocolonised, or even the imperialist nations themselves to make any attempt to create films of decolonisation that turned their…
Caricature of the Third Estate carrying the First Estate (clergy) and the Second Estate (nobility) on its back “You should hope that this game will be over soon.” The Counter-Enlightenment is the name given to the…
Review of Succession (contains spoilers) “In ancient Rome, at one point, they wanted to make all the slaves wear something so they could identify them. Like a cloak or whatever. But then they decided not…
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) and White Tiger (2021) (Spoiler alert) Book cover of The White Tiger (2008) “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (Elective Affinities, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) What kind…
Questions From a Worker Who Reads (Bertolt Brecht 1935) Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of…