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Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Dr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.

September 5, 2025
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The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Taking into account their concern about the moralistic upbringing of the children of a book-buying middle class, it should come as no surprise that the ‘irrational’ components of fairy stories were frowned upon by…

Teri Williams
January 5, 2021

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes

Drawing away from the X assemblage

Professionalisation and the New Woman: Q&A with Riya Das, editor of the critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes

Drawing away from the X assemblage

Professionalisation and the New Woman: Q&A with Riya Das, editor of the critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus

Q&A with Françoise Vergès on Decolonial Feminism