Beside such extreme acts of violence, ordinary life was of course lived ordinarily, decently, by scores of citizens. The vast majority of people wanted no truck with the killing. Continue reading
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The Irish Exile
The Irish Exile and Freedom’s Advocate was a brief but potent manifestation in print in early colonial Australia of the fight for Irish freedom. Continue reading
Waterford in Fiction
… he tells a great story and knows how to keep his readers interested. Continue reading
Not-Always-Harmonious Australia
… So it is a book about division. But I think it is also one about integration … Continue reading
Joyce and Divorce
Kuch has succeeded in opening Ulysses a little further, and, in giving us another option to consider in the fictional future of the Blooms, offered us another opportunity to read Joyce’s magnificent book once more anew. Continue reading
The Rivers of Dublin
The systematic provision of sewers in Dublin started around 1810. Watercourses and tributaries were incorporated into the sewerage system covering a complete network of approximately 1,300 miles… Continue reading
St Patrick Visitor Centre, Downpatrick
… a site for community engagement across the Catholic-Protestant divide. Continue reading
Poems from Colin Ryan
Gan rogha Bualadh chun bóthair, sin é an cleas a deirteá is tú ag cuimhneamh ar chonairí rúnda do dhúchais, ar an bhfásach thiar nach bhfaca tú riamh; anseo bhí na páistí ag súgradh ar shráidíní crochta faoi dhealbha mire, an gheargáil ag brúchtadh smúite: ach níl sé i ndán duit dúiseacht as an taibhreamh … Continue reading
World Première of play on Oliver St. John Gogarty
The Life and High Times of Oliver St John Gogarty – the Real Buck Mulligan Continue reading
Poems by Rosemary Blake
A poet’s tribute to her father, a two literary forebears …. Continue reading
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