| A chairde, Our Capital Vol 1 group will be meeting this evening in Connolly Books and next week our Militarism and Neutrality group will be meeting to discuss Music, Sound & Militarism. Readings for both are included below. Also! We are still taking registrations for our banner-making workshops, more info also also below!! Upcoming dates // readings & info below Tue 9 June 7PM – Capital Vol. 1 @ Connolly Books Tue 16 June 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books Sat 20 June 11AM – Our first banner-making workshop! Love and solidarity, SAINTS AND SCHOLARS   |
 Militarism & Neutrality Tuesday 16 June 2026 / 7pm-8.30pm // Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, D2 Music, Sound & Militarism Core readings Stephen R. Millar, ‘Music is my AK-47’: Performing Resistance in Belfast’s Rebel Music Scene (2018), available at: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/482875849/S.Millar_Open_Access_Music_is_my_AK47.pdf Steve Goodman, Sonic Warfare ‘1944: The Ghost Army’ (2010), available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Q7e6qp7Dmp_VAKsbhABTvkhr3Z9xcxm/view?usp=sharing The Journal of Music in Ireland, Soundtracking Iraq (1 October 2009), available at: https://journalofmusic.com/focus/soundtracking-iraq Centre for Nonviolent Conflict Research, Estonia’s Singing Revolution (1986-1991) (April 2009), available at: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/estonias-singing-revolution-1986-1991/ Further reading/watching/listening: Kerrang, The 164 songs that were banned from American radio after 9/11 (10 September 2021), available at: https://www.kerrang.com/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11 John Pirozzi, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll (2014) reading available at: https://www.dtifcambodia.com/info trailer available at: https://www.dtifcambodia.com/trailer full documentary available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxD7fnNRppg&t=5496s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sounds of Innovation: TIMEly, Living Foundaries | Ep 37 (21 December 2020), available at: https://www.darpa.mil/news/podcast/sounds-innovation-timely-living-foundaries-37 Playlist: Saints & Scholars Music, Sound & Militarism PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEjD_3N1PW1kUDxqy_3m0ipPW0MhHRqvE Add your suggestions fpr the playlist here! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BAOVLB-aRihrmonpejsEJnFeswdRanC7wxLm5OBfLZs/edit?tab=t.0 |
 Capital, Volume 1 Tuesday 9 June 2026 / 7pm-8.30pm // Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2 Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DRcwO6jmanINyAjSFF9S… Required reading: Chapters 16-24, and corresponding Harvey chapter (From Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value to the Accumulation of Capital) |
 Banner-Making Workshops Pre-registration is necessary to attend these workshops. The banner will be created over the full three sessions, so we ask people to please confirm you will be available for all three sessions. Link to sign-up is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eFpOFOe6VFLy5wH-xiC8hE0VPf2_ZFq7wV3pGilhrzM/edit Details of Workshops What: We will work together to design and create a banner to display at occasions, celebrations, and demonstrations. Áine will provide materials and will help us execute our ideas. Everyone is welcome and there’s no need for any sort of artistic experience to sign up for these workshops. Just bring your creativity! When: The workshops will take place across three dates in June and July 2026. Saturday 20 June from 11am-1pmSaturday 11 July from 11am-1pmSaturday 25 July from 11am-1pm Where: Fire Station Artists Studios, Lower Buckingham Street, Dublin 1 Information about Áine Phillips Áine is an artist and community organiser based in Galway. Her work explores themes of feminism and social justice. She holds a PhD in performance art practice from NCAD and is the editor of ‘Performance Art in Ireland: A History’ (2015). Áine was part of the Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment and helped create many of the iconic banners which were displayed at marches and organising events during the repeal campaign. She regularly holds banner making workshops with community groups around Ireland, including her recent ‘Reflections’ project with the women of Dún Emer Eastside Collective who created a banner commemorating the Irish women of 1923-1925 as part of the Decade of Centenaries. Áine’s banners have been collected by the National Museum of Ireland and Galway Museum. |
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