Here’s a trailer for ‘La Violencia’ – an upcoming feature length documentary that looks at the history of violence against women in the Guatemala, particularly the plight of indigenous Mayan women. Despite a 36-year armed conflict having come to a close (with the loss of 200,000 lives), it remains one of the most dangerous countries on the planet for females, with 771 women losing their lives in 2013 alone due … Read More
Change Comes From Those With Nothing Left To Lose.
On the off chance that you may find yourself in any doubt whatsoever as to the fact that political parties are naught but refuges for vile shit-spewing serpents, Scratch That Itch lays things straight. A New York governor once said, ‘You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.’ This little titbit may prove a useful anecdotal conversation-piece for the youth of our nation. Especially since the recent budget which directly … Read More
Martin Luther King in today’s America
In the final installment of our three-part interview series with Guardian journalist Gary Younge we explore the relevance of Martin Luther King’s politics to today’s America.
#rabbleReels: Robert Burns – The People’s Poet
It’s Burns Night and we’ve linked a BBC Documentary about his life as well as a couple of other pieces of interest. He was a man ahead of his time in many ways, his influence more widespread than might be imagined. Called the ‘People’s Poet’ by Russian peasants, he wrote ‘The Rights of Woman’ before the French Revolution and Bob Dylan regards him as his inspiration. Burns had some Irish … Read More
#clickBait: Demolition of Charlemont Street Flats
Click on photos below to scroll through more A few snaps from earlier today. The demolition of both Charlemont Gardens and Ffrench Mullen House. Dublin’s South Inner City. For a little more on these flats see here and of course check out Come Here To Me blog
#meEjit: Ian O’Doherty and Strawmen.
Remember earlier in the week, we posted how the European Network Against Racism got the Press Ombudsman to kick Ian O’Doherty to touch, over his ramblings on the Roma? The ENAR’s Shane O’Curry originally complained that the piece called “Begging – but I thought it was freedom of expression?” was in breach of Principle 8 of its code of practice for magazines and newspapers – it advocated the expulsion of … Read More
#FallonsFables: Small Minds, Big Screen
It’s perhaps unsurprising that a country that waged war on jazz music (the music of the Devil, apparently) and which banned many of its most celebrated authors would have a remarkable history of film censorship. Donal Fallon takes a look at how Irish audiences were historically deprived of some of the most ground-breaking films of the day. The Irish state was not the only force at play in keeping … Read More
#rabbleReels: 80 Blocks From Tiffanys
Tonight’s fare is a firm favorite in rabble land. Capturing as it does the bombed out story of the Bronx in the mid-1970s and the gangs that ruled the roost. You’ve oft heard how New York in the ’70s was a rough looking place, nowhere more so than the South Bronx. Gary Weis’ 80 Blocks From Tiffanys is based on a long piece of prose from Esquire magazine about the two gangs … Read More
#lookUp: The Limerick Go-Go Club
In Limerick The Post Office Lane passageway is one of the arteries in which trade coursed through the i9th century City. Over decades the paths have settled into anonymity as the storehouses they once serviced disappeared. Paul Tarpey explores one of the dramatic and quietly significant stories they hold. One well known one surrounds the famed Hanging Gardens, adjacent to the lane from Henry St. This was an exotic … Read More
Get Medieval
Finbar Dwyer’s new book ‘Witches, Spies And Stockholm Syndrome’ is the Christmas Bestseller that brings medieval Ireland to life. We sat down with Finbar to find out more about murder, drink and his research One of the first stories tells of a drunken row between Cachfren and Freysel which quickly escalates to murder. It seems drunkenness & violence existed before Love/Hate? Humans have been getting pissed and lairy … Read More