Politics and Letters

Interview with Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin, co-author with Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses, available from Oxford University Press.

'Good American writers know their job has something to do with interrogating the spiritual poverty of the nation'.

Tunes

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan

The Big Stick - Minutemen

Hallelujah I'm a Bum - Barbara Dane

Works Cited / Further Reading

Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. BBC, 2011.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, 2018.

——. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Verso, 2018.

——, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class. Verso, 2018.

—— and Jon Weiner. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Verso, 2020.

Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Marxists.org, 1967.

Elba, Max. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Verso, 2018.

Harris, Malcolm. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Little Brown, 2023.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Clarendon Press, 1988.

Jameson, Frederic. The Antinomies of Realism. Verso, 2013.

Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Holt, 2019.

Mair, Peter. Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy. Verso, 2013.

O’Neill, Tom. Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders. Penguin, 2019.

Panitch, Leo and Gindin, Sam. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of the American Empire. Verso, 2013.

Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day.

—, Bleeding Edge.

—, The Crying of Lot 49.

—, Gravity’s Rainbow.

—, Inherent Vice.

—, Mason & Dixon.

—, V.

—, Vineland.

Sheehan, Helena. Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism. Monthly Review Press, 2019.

Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle.

Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Underwood, Ted. Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Watt, Ian. Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. University of California Press, 2001.

Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, Old Street Publishing, 2015.

A transmission previously broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio with Tom Roseingrave speaking on the publication of the Frustrated Writer's Group zine (Volume 1), with recorded contributions from the zine's contributors: Clíodhna Breathnach, Emily Featherman, Baxter King-Epping, Molly May O'Leary, Carina nic Giolla Phádraig, Katy Finnegan, Cian Booth and Sophia Malaika.

Music from Kool A.D., Liam Ó Maonlaí, Ice Spice, Rosalía & Rauw Alejandro, MIKE and Moodyman.

A conversation with Joe Cleary about his book Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland, a collection of essays engaging with Irish culture from the time of the literary revival, through the Free State and postwar periods to the Celtic Tiger.

Joe Cleary is a professor of English in Yale University, where he teaches on modernism, Irish, postcolonial and world literatures. More recently he has published Modernism, Empire, World Literature (2021) and The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization (2021). 

The sound quality here is a bit shagged for the first ten minutes or so but it picks up after, my apologies.

A conversation with Odrán de Bhaldraithe about his new book Neglect in the North of Ireland, which will be available to order here on Thursday the 22nd of July.

Odrán also has a Substack, which you can read here.

A conversation with Sinéad Kennedy about the history of Irish feminism, the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment from the Irish constitution, and the distinct ways in which the politics of liberation in Ireland have been inflected by Ireland's unique position within the world system.

This episode was inspired to a large extent by Dr Camilla FitzSimons' book Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights, which is available here from Pluto Press.

An episode of Pluto Press' Radicals in Conversation consisting of a conversation between Camilla, Sinéad and Ruth Coppinger about the campaign is available here.

Sinéad Kennedy is a senior university tutor in Maynooth University's Department of English. She has written and published widely on struggles for reproductive rights, Marxism, political theory and Irish literature. In 2013 she founded the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment with feminist activist and lecturer Ailbhe Smyth.

An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said. 

Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said,  Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992. He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893 - 1916. 

I blog at https://aonchiallach.github.io

An interview with the historians Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh & Kerron Ó'Luain about the Irish Civil War, originally broadcast on Nervous State.

Leabhar Ó'Luain: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2019/rathcoole-and-the-united-irish-rebellions/

Blag Mac Bloscaidh: https://blosc.wordpress.com

Nervous State: https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/resident/nervous-state