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Review: West End Girl by Lily Allen
Reviewed by Aislinn O Keeffe West End Girl, the new album by Lily Allen, and her first in…
Review: One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Reviewed by Jonathan Diebold On 25 September, an icon of the leftwing radicalism which shook America in the…
Review: Carving The Stone by For Those I Love
By Kate Quinlan For Those I Love, the musical project of Dublin musician and spoken word artist David…
“Jealousy” and “begrudgery” – the last refuge of the Irish influencer
By Kate Quinlan The backlash against Irish influencers attending Electric Picnic on Coca Cola’s dime has exposed something…
Review: Euro-Country by CMAT – a pop anthem of political manipulation and collective memory
By Carla Grainger In her latest release, ‘Euro-Country’, Meath-born singer-songwriter CMAT has delivered not just a pop song,…
Why does my guilty pleasure feel like a case study in coercive control? – love as labour on ‘Love Island’
By Kate Quinlan and Carla Grainger We used to call Love Island our guilty pleasure. Now the guilt…
Frantz Fanon at 100: Review of ‘A Dying Colonialism’
By Manus Lenihan Today marks one hundred years since the birth of Frantz Fanon. A psychiatrist by profession,…
Review: Kate Nash calls out TERF ideology in blistering new single
By Kate Quinlan In her new single GERM, British singer-songwriter Kate Nash doesn’t just join the cultural conversation…
Review: Fragments of Victory edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy
Fragments of Victory – The Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy, Pluto, 2025 (above…
Review: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Intermezzo by Sally RooneyFaber, 2024 Reviewed by Harper Cleves Last September, at the National Concert Hall in Dublin,…
