This collection of President Michael D Higgins' magazine columns from the 1980s and 1990s offers a diverse perspective on Irish politics from the left. Covering current affairs alongside traditional music coverage, the articles reveal Higgins' views as a senator and later as minister for arts, culture and the Gaeltacht. This anthology, curated by Hot Press editor Niall Stokes, provides insight into Higgins' political journey before his rise to national prominence.
Power to the People: The Hot Press Years by Michael D Higgins . Minority reports from Ireland of the 1980s and 1990s
Now, a selection has been collected and republished by Hot Press, complete with effusive introduction and useful “scene-setting” by its long-serving editor Niall Stokes. Anthologies such as this usually appear once the author has acquired some later distinction; it’s fair to say that Higgins is more popular as a head of state than he was as an avowedly left-wing politician.
Musicals for grown ups: Stephen Sondheim presents ‘life deconstructed and laid bare, in all its confusion and disarray’It is a diverse selection that avoids a soap-opera approach to Ireland’s politics in this era. Perhaps surprisingly for an Irish politician, Higgins didn’t bring Galway into the column until 1985 and even this became an unflattering discussion of Galwegian links to the slave economies of the early modern Atlantic world.
At times the columns are slightly over-written but they are, for the most part, clear and very readable pieces of commentary and reportage, inevitably rooted in their time and place. This is the book’s strength but it also leads to a weakness. It offers, often vividly, one politician’s perspective on Ireland and the world, written for an audience who would probably have been reasonably familiar with much of what Higgins was writing about.
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