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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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Why should we care about endangered languages?

In this extract from the introduction of his new book Linguist on the Loose, Lyle Campbell explores why and how linguists work with endangered languages. by Lyle Campbell In my mind I have always been a country boy; I grew…

Helena Heald
April 6, 2022

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Why should we care about endangered languages?

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

Why should we care about endangered languages?

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