Shows
Politics and LettersThe Russian Revolution IV: Civil War & Revolution in GermanyIntro: Red Army is the Strongest - Alexandrov Red Army Choir
Outro: You Fell Victim
Further Reading
Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution: 1917 - 1923. Haymarket Books, 2005.
Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.
Cohen, Stephen P. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography 1888 - 1938. Knopf, 1973.
Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.
——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.
FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Kołakowski, Leszek...
2024-12-301h 09Politics and LettersThe Russian Revolution III: February to OctoberWorks Cited
Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.
Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.
—, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.
FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.
Nettl, J.P. Rosa Luxemburg. Verso, 2019.
Rabinowitch, Alexander. Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. Indiana University Press, 1991.
——. The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. Haymarket Books, 2004.
Reed...
2024-12-171h 08Politics and LettersThe Russian Revolution II: Germany, Poland and Russia in the Second InternationalFurther Reading
Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution 1917 - 1923. Haymarket Books, 2005.
Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.
——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.
FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.
International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/zimmerwald/manifesto-1915.htm
Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.
Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.
Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to...
2024-12-101h 05Politics and LettersThe Russian Revolution I: Hegel, Marx and the First InternationalFirst part of a 6 / 7 part lecture series on the Russian Revolution going from the Enlightenment to the Paris Commune.
07:27: My bad explanation of Kant ends.
14:20: My bad explanation of Hegel ends.
I think I was sick of recording towards the end, you can hear it in my voice a bit.
Further Reading
Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2018.
Engels, Friedrich. Anti-Dühring. Wellred Books, 2017....
2024-12-041h 03Politics and LettersThe Russian Revolution: IntroductionStrategic aims and outline of what I hope to achieve
2024-12-0303 minPolitics and LettersMichael G. Cronin, Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Revolutionary Bodies, Sexual / LiberationInterview with Michael G. Cronin, Assistant Professor of English in Maynooth University about his books:
Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing
and Sexual / Liberation
2024-08-191h 302024-03-0543 minPolitics and LettersLiam McNulty, James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and InternationalistConversation with Liam McNulty about his book James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist, a critical biography of the great Irish socialist revolutionary, out from Merlin Press.
Tunes:
Frank Harte - James Connolly
Liam Weldon - James Connolly
2024-02-0247 minPolitics and LettersChris Beausang: Tunnel of ToadsRoxanna Nic Liam reads a excerpts from Tunnel of Toads, a novel I have written which is due to be published by Marrowbone Books in a few weeks.
Tunes:
Radie Peat - Cailín deas cruite na mBó / When I Was a Young Girl
Pinch & Shackleton - Cracks in the Pleasuredome
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney - It's Still There
2023-11-2923 minPolitics and LettersSam Slote: Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesInterview 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.
2023-10-3057 minPolitics and LettersThomas Pynchon's California Novels: The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland and Inherent Vice'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.
——...
2023-10-151h 08Politics and LettersTom Roseingrave: Frustrated Writer's Group Vol. 1A 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.
2023-09-031h 03
The East is a PodcastThe legendary life of Roger Casement w/ Chris BeausangFriend of the podcast Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to explore the life and legacy of Roger Casement. Subscribe to Chris' fantastic podcast, Politics and Letters Check out his earlier episodes on the podcast James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1) The Troubles and the Irish Question (Pt.1) Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
2023-07-251h 10Politics and LettersJoe Cleary: Capital and Culture in Modern IrelandA 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 i...
2023-07-171h 27Politics and LettersOdrán de Bhaldraithe: Neglect in the North of IrelandA 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.
2023-06-2049 minPolitics and LettersSinéad Kennedy: Repeal the EighthA 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...
2023-05-221h 25
The East is a Podcast(Preview) Politics and Letters: Conor McCarthy on Edward Said *Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang has started his own podcast! Subscribe to his show here on Apple Podcasts and listen to the entire episode* 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
2023-03-1936 min
Politics and LettersConor McCarthy: Edward SaidAn 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
2023-03-141h 23
Politics and LettersFearghal Mac Bhloscaidh & Kerron Ó'Luain: The Irish Civil WarAn 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
2023-01-031h 08
Rupture RadioAnois ar theacht an tSamhraidh w/ Bill Rolston and Robbie McVeighThis week Diarmuid was joined by Chris Beausang as they sat down with Bill Rolston and Robbie McVeigh, authors of 'Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution', for a discussion of the nature of Irish colonialism. We discuss what led them to writing the book, the resurgence of colonial and post-colonial thought, the original plantations, the outcomes of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the development of both states north and south, and questions of identity.
The book can be purchased directly from the publisher Beyond the Pale Books here - https://www.beyondthepalebooks.com/shopnewbooks/p...
2022-09-131h 00
The East is a PodcastThe Troubles and the Irish Question (Pt.2) w/Chris Beausang Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books. Supplementary readling: https://analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/the-irish-revolution-in-three-parts/ Listen to Chris's latest bonus by signing up as a $5 patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/66261345
2022-06-1557 min
The East is a PodcastThe Troubles and the Irish Question (Pt.1) w/Chris BeausangChris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books. Supplementary readling: https://analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/the-irish-revolution-in-three-parts/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
2022-05-3059 min
The East is a Podcast(Preview) Bonus Episode 135 - The Irish Reunification of 2022? w/ Chris Beausang Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to discuss the recent elections in Norther Ireland. A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. *You're gonna be noticing more paywalled content going forward. As much as I want more people to listen for free, recent changes in my life require me to start pushing the Patreon more. Unfortunately, this means the occasional passive aggressive addenda like this one reminding you, dear listener, that I have been doing this show alone for almost 4 years and I get n...
2022-05-1117 min
Millennials Are Killing CapitalismIreland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution with Robbie McVeigh and Bill RolstonIn this episode we interview Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, authors of the book Anois ar theacht an tSamraidh: Ireland Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution, a work that may be unparalleled in its analysis of the history of colonialism and modes of anti-imperialist struggle across Irish history. It covers 800 years of history of colonialism in Ireland, and pays particular attention to the various colonial forms British Imperialism imposes upon the people of the island. It also takes a deep dive into examining the contradictions of each of the Irish states that emerge from partition, an undemocratic and co...
2022-03-161h 59
The East is a PodcastJames Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.2) w/ Chris BeausangChris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books. Check out his piece on Liberated Texts, "Ireland's Struggle for Self-determination" https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/irelands-struggle-for-self-determination-robbie-mcveigh-and-bill-rolstons-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-revolution/
2022-01-2152 min
The East is a PodcastJames Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1) w/ Chris BeausangChris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books. Check out his piece, "Ireland's Struggle for Self-determination" https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/irelands-struggle-for-self-determination-robbie-mcveigh-and-bill-rolstons-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-revolution/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
2021-12-271h 11
NPPSH ConferenceEp. 26 - Panel 6B - Part 2 - Digital literary criticism and the end of history - Chris Beausang (MU)The aim of this paper will be to present a sequence of results obtained from i) a network-based analysis created through the 'Stylo' package (a library developed within the statistical programming language R for the quantitative analysis of literary data), and ii) a network-based visualisation generated in the open-source software package Gephi. This analysis reflects an attempt to develop a definition of literary style by the comparison of word frequencies embedded in two corpora, the first of which will be composed of just over 250 modernist novels, novellas and short story collections, and the second, which will contain 250 works written and...
2018-12-0320 min