A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Continue reading
Posted in June 2019 …
Bloomsday in Brisbane
Readings, music, Irish literature more generally, and eating and drinking – Bloomsday at the Queensland Irish Association in Brisbane. Continue reading
Untold History
They remembered the Black and Tans. Twenty years later, they refused to be conscripted into the British army a world away. Continue reading
Brilliantly Inventive Stoppard Play for Bloomsday
Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival
Reports from the Irish Film Festival, Melbourne Continue reading
From the Papers
European elections, murder, the courts, two true Dubs Continue reading
A LIFETIME OF STORIES
Report by Shauna Stanley A Lifetime of Stories (2019) launched at the Irish Film Festival. It is a multilingual short feature, spanning less than 40 minutes, written, produced and directed by the Director of the Festival Enda Murray, as an open access project available for free viewing on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPJ18eJn24 The film features five older … Continue reading
Poems by Colin Ryan
Danta as Gaeilge with English translations Continue reading
Time Long Past
When angry local men turned up with brickbats at an Irish concert. Continue reading
A First Book Gem
He came from nothing, but his success left him isolated and alone. Continue reading
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