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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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Panorama photograph showing a densely built, colourful city set against a mountain backdrop

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

On the third anniversary of the seizure of Kabul, Robert D. Crews asks how we make sense of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

Edinburgh University Press
August 15, 2024

A picture of the ceiling of dome to Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine

The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban

by Shivan Mahendrarajah The Taliban are back in power, ushering in renewed fears of destruction of cultural heritages. Their first time in office (1996–2001), the Taliban destroyed edifices on the basis that they were ‘un-Islamic’ and/or ‘beacons’ for polytheists (mushrikin).…

Kevin Worrall
September 13, 2021

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

How is this Philosophy?

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