Ireland

Mo Chara, Móglaí  Bap, Richard Peppiatt, DJ Próvaí The movie  Kneecap  ( Rich Peppiatt , 2024) starring Michael Fassbinder and the Kneecap band’s  trio of Mo Chara,  Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, is quite unlike any biopic I have seen. Recently, this has included Bob Marley ‘s One Love,  which was unfortunately tainted with just enough Hollywood schmaltz as to render it annoyingly benign. Then came the Dylan biopic,  A Complete Unknown. This promised so much more. and its musi

Eight hundred years and counting, but still there appears to be no end in sight to British rule in Ireland. After a further quarter...

[Part 2 of a 3-part series] " The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent but anger and revolt amongst the workmen against pre-war conditions. The whole existing order in its political, social and economic aspects is questioned by the masses of the population from one end of Europe to the other". David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, 1919. The Irish revolution is traditionally associated with the War of Inde

After more than 22 years of the Good Friday Agreement which ended the militarisation of the conflict in northern Ireland, the underlying tensions of the unresolved national question in Ireland have once again erupted onto the streets of Belfast and Derry. The scenes of loyalist rioting on the Shankill area and the number of casualties sustained by the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) were reminiscent of what are euphemistically referred to as “the Troubles”, the 30-