The rediscovery of a champion of the victims of war, of women and a campaigner against censorship in the twentieth century. Winifred Letts is honoured by the Irish Government. Continue reading
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THE LEDDINS OF LIMERICK
Early settlers of the Port Fairy area of Victoria and their family legacies.
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Filming Ulysses
Gilsenan’s poetic method involves matching lines with a private visual vocabulary, rather like treating the novel as ‘found poetry’ pi Continue reading
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What Makes a Great Writer
Sebastian Barry explores the influences on him as a writer in a series of three lectures. Continue reading
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The Earls Didn’t Return
There’s a border in Ireland now
that began – some would say –
when O’Neill and O’Donnell
of Tyrone and Tyrconnell,
took flight from where the
blue horizon is swallowed up
by the feral Atlantic in Donega Continue reading
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Claire Keegan Makes a Bigger Splash
In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan eschews righteous anger about the Magdalen Laundry system, in favour of a strikingly new angle of vision. Continue reading
What’s On in October and later
A film festival, a feast of family, a Joyce-themed concert, an Irish language school, and a paper on the history of religion…. Continue reading
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From the Papers
Covid Figures According to a report in The Independent, the counties with the highest incidence of Covid-19 were Westmeath, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Sligo, Carlow, Waterford and Donegal. Counties with the lowest rates were Dublin, Wicklow, Monaghan, Kildare, Meath, Cork and Clare. Priestless It was a new word to us here in Australia. It appears that the … Continue reading
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New Irish Fiction
New Irish fiction by Sheila O’Flanagan, Steve Cavanagh and James Lawless. Continue reading
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