Workers in Ireland need a substantial pay rise to match CEOs’ pay rises and profits
As every worker knows, the cost of living is spiralling far beyond pay increases. More and more working families have their backs against the wall, […]
Orpen and Keating
Two bilingual tanka, in Irish and English, “Hail the Deserters” and “Weeping in their Graves,” 31-syllable poems (5-7-5-7-7), in response to work by two Irish […]
Stranger than fiction
Anyone who is politically active knows the importance of reading—and knows the weight of books one ought to have read. It is easy to become […]
Two book launches
This month Connolly Books will play host to two book launches. On 15 July, at 7pm, Conor Magahy will launch his first book, Posh […]
Pride is a protest
On Saturday 25 June members and comrades of the CPI joined a protest organised by the Connolly Youth Movement on Rosie Hackett Bridge to protest […]
War poet
The short life of Sidney Keyes (1922–1943) is in itself a striking metaphor for the cruelty and futility of war. He was killed in action […]