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This blog contains articles on culture as well as a database of Realist and Social Realist art from around the world by Irish artist Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin. These paintings can be viewed country by country by clicking on the list of countries and themes down the right-hand side of the blog. The artwork of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, consisting of cityscapes of Dublin, images based on Irish history and other work with social/political themes, can be seen at www.gaelart.net.

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Woodstock ’99: Feeling the Heat

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  A poster of the miniseries Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99. The documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 was most decidedly a depiction of a cata...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Hollywood 1940s Pro-Soviet Movies: “Social Realism Cinema in America”

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There was a brief moment in time in the 1940s, when the USA was at one with Russia or as it was known then, the Soviet Union...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The Bellyfeel of Paradise: Inside the Media Dome

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-...
Friday, April 8, 2022

Not so Black and White: Belfast in the 1960s

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  Review of Kenneth Brannagh's film Belfast (2021)   For those not familiar with the vicissitudes of Northern Ireland, Kenneth Branagh...

The Re-Humanisation of Culture: Dickens and the Social Realist Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s

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Charles Dickens  (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) in New York , c. 1867–1868 Between 1935 and 1952 seven films were made based on the nove...
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