A Stretch of the Imagination, a classic of the Australian theatre, will be staged on 16 November 2013. Continue reading
Posted in October 2013 …
John Redmond Book Launch
Invitation to the launch of a new book by Dermot Meleady on the leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond. Continue reading
The Celtic Club Program for October/November
The Celtic Club, located in central Melbourne, is Australia’s first Irish Club Continue reading
Irish racehorses and Nobel-prize-winning economists
Four Irish horses in the Caulfield Cup pose a challenge to your rationality …. Continue reading
‘No Irish Need Apply’
… it will probably come as no surprise to learn that the racists amongst us have returned to a tried and true favourite – anti-Irish prejudice … Continue reading
‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman Way’: David Marr on George Pell
Whether his apparently tin ear in dealing with victims and their families is personal inadequacy or an effect of his hierarchical remoteness from his flock is hard to say but maybe, as Marr reports, it is because ‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman way’. Continue reading
Who created the nocturne? Is it Polish or Irish?
I wish to establish, once and for all, the right of John Field to be credited with the invention and naming of the nocturne. Continue reading
Noel King’s Knotty Poems
Anyone who has attempted to draw a knot would know how difficult it is to discern the curves and tucks of hempen lines. King lists the many kinds of knots he paints …. Continue reading
A Light in the Window
In this highly readable memoir, Mary, in conjunction with her daughter, Tessa, narrates how a ‘reserved freckle-faced bookworm’ (p.26) from Ballina ‘a small town in a small country on the western periphery of Europe’, became one of Ireland’s most recognisable and celebrated leaders, both domestically and internationally. Continue reading
The Flesh and the Spirit
The poems in Irish illustrate the directness of the language, its peculiar music, its power to evoke a history which seldom finds a voice in English… Continue reading
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