Jeremy Kearney
Articles by Jeremy Kearney
2022
2020
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Songs from Old Weird America
After listening to Dylan and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes’ material, Greil Marcus wrote that this music reflected ‘a community as deep, as electric, as perverse…
2017
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World Politics
Leading from the Left
The short answer is a snap general election took place in between and it produced a result that very few expected. But there is also…
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World Art / Culture
They’re Selling Postcards of the Stoning
When Bob Dylan blasted out his electric version of “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he was, for many, committing sacrilege. Pete…
2016
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World Politics
Brothers in Arms
The British Labour Party is in deep crisis, with the majority in the constituency parties, many of them recently joined-up members or supporters, strongly in…
2015
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Irish Art / Culture
A Dance You Should Know
In the era of Brendan Bowyer, Dickie Rock and Joe Dolan, Ireland was showband-crazy. The performances may not always have been of high quality but…
2014
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Irish History
Unquiet Graves, Unsettled Accounts
Between 1926 and 1951, the average number of people confined in industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalene laundries, county homes, mother and baby homes or mental institutions…
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Irish Art / Culture
The People’s Music
The British folk music scene began to thrive through its extensive club circuit in the 1950s and gave a platform to many Irish singers. It…
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Irish History
Punished for being Poor
It is clear that no real effort was made by the Irish government to seriously consider alternatives to the strategy of institutionalisation developed in the…