They broke the ground for the generations to follow. The Old Ghan railway was a major achievement, not only providing an essential service but in showing what is required to live and work in this challenging environment. Continue reading
Posted in November 2023 …
The poetry of trans-Atlantic Eamonn Wall
Do children become the ‘littoral’ or interface that joins the émigré parent/s to the new homeland? Is the émigré in a transitioning state of ‘liminality’ until they have children born in the new country? Eamonn Wall says that having children connected him to his new home. Continue reading
Features from the Irish Film Festival Reviewed
Two feature films and a short film from the Irish Film Festival Reviewed. Continue reading
Impressive New Irish Documentaries
Three New Documentary films at the Irish Film Festival, including two love songs to Dublin. Continue reading
Acclaimed Young Irish Female Film Directors
Two remarkable documentaries, one about clerical violence; the other about the death of an NI journalist. Continue reading
Poems of Rembrance by Michael Patrick Moore
Two more poems from Michael Patrick Moore reminding us of friendship and loss and love during this month of remembering Continue reading
Cúinne Dátheangach Bilingual Corner
Some of our Irish speakers and learners have appreciated the opportunity to stock up on new Irish language books in Dublin, attend daonscoileanna in Donegal and Waterford, and even to write as Gaeilge. Andrew Hogg provides this account of his recent travels in Bali looking for gamelan music, and an unexpected invitation to a wedding feast Continue reading
Two Irish Booker Finalists
The Booker is an annual literary award presented to the novel judged to be the most outstanding published in Great Britain and Ireland. Continue reading
The Failure of the Socialist Dream in the Free State
Dermot Bolger’s novel deals with the decline of the landed Anglo-Irish class, the rise and fall of Soviet-style Socialism in Ireland after the establishment of the Free State Continue reading
What’s on: November, December ’23, January ’24
Famine Rock Commemoration, MISS seminar, Eureka Dinner, Irish Language Summer School Continue reading
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