Love/Hate on SBS & Sinéad O’Connor
The Irish Crime Drama series Love/Hate has made it’s way on to SBS OnDemand for Aussies to check out:
sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/love-hate
Considering the competition for harrowing crime dramas from across the pond (yes we’re looking at you Scandinavian friends) and Aussies preferred fondness for a more romanticised notion of their Emerald Isle mates, it’s great to see this gritty production get the attention it deserves.
Find out why Love/Hate is considered Ireland’s most popular drama ever here
If you’ve not seen the film about Sinéad O’Connor, Nothing Compares2 U, streaming on SBS, it’s certainly very moving, all the more so in the light of her recent untimely death. RIP. Trailer on You Tube.
TWO NEW BLOOMSDAY COURSES
13 August & 10 September 2023
 1: A Day with James Joyce: Dubliners When: Sunday 13 August 10am-4.30pm Where: Boyd Community Hub, The Assembly Hall, Southbank Cost: $90 / $80 To book: https://bit.ly/dubliners2023Illustration by Chip Zdarsky Let’s start at the very beginning (well, almost!) with Dubliners and just two representative stories:a satiric tale of adult life, ‘The Boarding House,’ andarguably the most admired novella of the modern period, a poignant story about lost love and a vain attempt to revive it (and much more), ‘The Dead’.You’re invited to read the entire collection Dubliners, but we’ll focus on just these stories. We’ll go deep and cover these topics:the long journey to publication of Dubliners, exploring why it was that this apparently innocuous collection took so long to reach publication, because of censorship, and despite Ezra Pound’s energetic promotion of it. What on earth gave offence in this collection of stories?How new and original are they? We’ll delve into Joyce’s radical narrative techniques: his deployment of voice and point of view, the artful and cunning ways he manages to be both critical and wrangle our sympathies.What the stories reveal about Dublin life (and Joyce’s perspectives on a paralysed body politic) in the pre-Easter Rising period and the beginnings of his systematic attacks on almost every public institution in his homeland – family, church, literary and musical culture, and the church. |
 2. How to Break into Ulysses: Episode 13, Nausicaa When: Sunday 10 September 10am-4.30pm Where: Boyd Community Hub, The Assembly Hall, Southbank Cost: $90 / $80 To book: https://bit.ly/ulysses2023 This is the chapter of Ulysses that so scandalised the world that it got Joyce labelled a pornographer and his book banned before it was even published. How so, when the censors failed to read Joyce’s innuendo and metaphors? Yet the legal body-blow dealt by the US court system did not cause Joyce to swerve in his radical critique of culture. If anything, it strengthened his commitment to telling it straight and questioning, in this chapter, male and female versions of love and sexuality. The perspectives are utterly at odds with one another, and hilariously so. It’s a fascinating chapter and very user-friendly for the first-time reader of Ulysses, being written in a language that is readily accessible. And it’s laugh-out-loud funny. Located in the second half of the novel, Joyce is increasingly experimental with parodies, and engaging with the latest in the new sub-discipline of psychiatry, sexology. It’s also really biting (and critical – long before The Female Eunuch) on the subject of how women are inducted into their given roles in compulsory heterosexuality. (We may throw in the corresponding section of the novel of how boys are formed as sexual beings.) In looking deeply into Nausicaa, we locate the chapter in the narrative and examinethe competing voices in her culture that provide Gerty with ways of thinking about being a lover and wife;Bloom’s pseudo-scientific sense of what lights his erotic fires;the skill and fun of the parodies that abound in the chapter;andwe’ll interrogate the binary structure it offers of maleness and femaleness and canvass some of the ways in which subsequent chapters break that down;look at some relevant contexts: Mariology in the Roman Catholic liturgy, women’s magazines and advertising, and romance novels and their versions of amor; and, finally,at the very different world of sexology and theories of smell and what they reveal about the human condition. |
Celtic Studies Conference, Sydney September 25-27, 2023: August 18 Final Call for Papers
The Tenth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will be hosted by the Celtic Language Teaching and Research, School of Art, Communications and English, The University of Sydney in person and online.
Online sessions will take place in the early evening Sydney time, to facilitate international
participation, and will be projected in the conference room for those attending in person.
Conference Committee:
Dr Pamela O’Neill
Professor Daniel Anlezark
Murray-Luke Peard
Keynote speakers:
Dr Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University
Professor Mark Byron, The University of Sydney
Call for Papers extended
Papers are invited on any topic falling within the academically recognised discipline of
Celtic Studies. Papers taking a comparative or reception approach to areas within
Celtic Studies are also welcome. Papers will be of 20 minutes’ duration follow by
10 minutes’ question time.
Abstracts of up to 300 words (accompanied by a bio of up to 100 words) should be sent to
Dr Pamela O’Neill pamela.oneill@sydney.edu.au by Friday 18 August 2023.
Offers of grouped papers or non-traditional sessions such as round-tables will also be
welcomed, with a preferred duration of 90 minutes. Scholars intending to offer such
sessions are encouraged to contact Dr O’Neill informally in the first instance.
Acceptances will be issued as soon as practicable after receipt of offers.
It is intended that a subsequent publication in memory of Anders Ahlqvist, inaugural Sir
Warwick Fairfax Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Sydney, will include a
number of papers from the conference.
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Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series – Online
| Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series Semester 2 provisional program All times Melbourne Time. Here are some dates for your diary! We will send more details of each seminar closer to the date, including zoom links. 22nd August 6.30pm ONLINE ONLY Rod and Robin Sullivan, Queensland Irish Association. 12th September 6.30pm ONLINE ONLY Sophie Cooper, Queen’s University, Belfast. Irish Diaspora, women and material culture. MISS co-convenors: Philip Bull (La Trobe University) Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University) Dianne Hall (Victoria University) Ronan McDonald, (University of Melbourne)Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne) |
| Our website is https://isaanz.org/irish-studies-association-of-australia-and-new-zealand/events/miss-seminars/ |
BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Celtic Connections Event – Battle of the Bands
31 Aug 23 till 31 Aug 23
The Celtic Club of Melbourne in partnership with the Drunken Poet are proud to announce our next Celtic Connections event on Thursday 31st August kick-off at 7.00pm until late. This event is aimed at supporting upcoming bands in our Irish Community.
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Start Date31 August 2023End Date31 August 2023Start Time7:00pmEnd Time11:59pmVenueDrunken Poet, 65 Peel Street, West Melbourne Contact Emailmembership@celticclub.com.auMax. Attendees100Who Can Register?AnyoneRegistration
Melbourne Comhaltas Lughnasa: 26 August 2023
Comhaltas Zoom: 31 July 8-10pm
Comhaltas are also holding their monthly Zoom session then. Contact organisers for link, please.
Tinteán 
Hello – I have been trying to contact Tintean, however, the email address bounces back about an article. Could you please email me? Thanks!
Lyn, I hope one of the editors replied to your enquiry in September, and if not, sincere apologies. I suggest you try again, info@tintean.org.au, and failing that frances@tintean.org.au
both emails are working for lots of readers, so hopefully it will for you. Let me know if not, please, and I’ll try another route. f.