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Posted in February 2014 …
The Man they call the Banjo
The exact circumstances about the love affair, Banjo’s break up with his fiancé Sarah Riley, and the death of the Swagman may never be known. Continue reading
Brigid Fest 2014
This is the 10th year that Brigid Fest has been celebrated at the Celtic Club. Patron saint of Ireland and well known as the centre of an annual fire lighting ceremony on the saint’s day, St Brigid is also known as a strong woman and, these days, something of a feminist icon. She is patron … Continue reading
Howling wind and driving storm!
For people who want to (partly) experience what’s happening off the Irish coast at the moment, the Irish Times has a video of the weather: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/video?vid=1.1688977 Do have a look, it will make the present heat and humidity seem so balmy and pleasant by comparison. Felicity Allen, Editorial Team
A Citizen of the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney and Northern Ireland
For hard-line Republicans, Heaney has always been far too reluctant to take sides; for moderate nationalists, his efforts to locate the violence in the North within historically-based atrocities was seen as a compromise of his creative principles; whilst for many hard-line unionists, Heaney is, without qualification, a Catholic/nationalist and, thus, political writer, whose loyalties are already fixed to one side of the conflict. Continue reading
On first teaching Heaney
Another in Tinteán’s ongoing series of tributes to Seamus Heaney, arguing that Heaney’s rapid canonisation was due to his attractive subjects and themes, and to his poems’ suitability for contemporary criticism. Continue reading
The Cricketer, The Wife and the Cathedral Priest: a Sectarian Melodrama of Old Sydney
The Price of a Wife sets out to unravel the complex web of relationships, politics, skullduggery, paranoia, and the flawed and tragic human loves involved in the Coningham – O’Haran divorce trial. Continue reading
Ballyshanassy: Melbourne’s lost suburb
In its heyday, however, Ballyshanassy rivalled its northern neighbor, Box Hill, in importance and could have become the seat of local government. Continue reading
Rev. James Harold (1744 -1831): The Saggart Deportee
Fr Harold’s informal priestly work attracted the suspicions of the authorities not least among them Captain William Bligh of ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ fame Continue reading
Celtic Club Program – February 2014
The vision is to create an outstanding club. Continue reading
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