The 24th April 1916 is the actual date of the Easter Rising in Dublin. Continue reading
Posted in April 2016 …
Eurovision Update: Romania’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity
A News Item by Tintean’s Eurovision Correspondent Ireland’s chances of qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest Final have improved overnight with a shock announcement from the European Broadcasting Union. Romania has been disqualified from competing at the Contest in 2016 because its national broadcaster, TVR, has failed to meet an outstanding debt deadline. The issue, … Continue reading
Advanced Joyce course 30 April 2016
This course is designed to cater to the needs of those who have a working knowledge of Ulysses. It focusses on the less naturalistic and more experimental chapters of Ulysses, and in particular Nausicaa, Ithaca, Circe and Cyclops. ADVANCED COURSE I on ULYSSES ‘Melodiotiosities in Pure Effusion’: Joyce’s Avant-Gardism When? 12 noon-6.30pm, Sat. 30 April … Continue reading
The 2016 Kathleen Fitzpatrick History Lecture
This lecture will examine the Rising from two perspectives: as a ‘theatre of war’ and as re-enactment. Continue reading
The Easter Rising – another context?
Did the leaders of the Rising fully expect civilians, including children, to die for the cause? Continue reading
‘The Pulse’ with Bernard Ryan
My radio program is not “Celtic’ – though Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ is read ‘religiously’ this time on my show every year! Continue reading
Ireland at Eurovision 2016 – Nicky and the Balkan Divas
Nicky Byrne’s Eurovision song, ‘Sunlight’ has steadily lost ground as the other entries in the field of 43 countries have been released. Ireland is now ranked 25th in the overall field with the bookmakers. Continue reading
Celtic Club News
This comical musical was a great night’s entertainment Continue reading
Reflections On The Significance Of Easter Week 1916 (Part One)
it was a terrible beauty because of the fundamental transformation of the legend of Ireland and her people which it initiated and the transition to a new Ireland which it inaugurated – for Ireland was indeed to be ‘changed, changed utterly’. Continue reading
Declaration of the Australian Republic
We the Australian people declare ourselves to be a self-governing republic, totally free of formal links to other countries in our governance arrangements… Continue reading
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