I can’t think of many places where you might find Flann O’Brien cheek by jowl with Ange Postecoglou, Sr Liguori and Lord Craigavon’s tour of the Antipodes.’ Continue reading
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It’s Time: Leo Varadkar Resigns as Taoiseach
At 38 years of age, Varadkar was Ireland’s youngest taoiseach. He was also its first mixed-race premier, its first government leader not to be a practising Catholic, and its first openly gay head of government. Continue reading
The Migrant Crisis
There have never been more people on the move than in our time. A few years ago the United Nations estimated the number of refugees at an astonishing 70 million. Yet close to 85% of these migrants end up not in Europe or North America but in developing Third-World countries. Continue reading
Fr Dan O’Donovan
Fr Dan and his 40 years of service to First Nations people in the Kimberley. Continue reading
Brigidfest 2024
St.Brigid is now commemorated by so many events worldwide. I Continue reading
Poetry from Margaret Galvin
In the plush dark of the cinema,
this shy, reclusive man rode out with the drunken Sherriff to El Dorado
understood why the lawman took to the drink
when the saloon girl left town.
Wept for his loss. Continue reading
Pummelled by Mother-Love
Soldier Sailor is the kind of book I’d have devoured as a first-time and very bewildered mother navigating the new regime of extreme highs and lows of mother-love. Continue reading
Three Irish Novels
Three women writers, led by the Crime Fiction Book of the Year.
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What’s On in April and Beyond
A Booklaunch in Adelaide, Music, Dance, a workshop and concert by Master Fiddle Player Gerry O’Connor Continue reading
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