Marion Mahony Griffin’s environmentalist principles underpinned her designs for buildings, communities, and town planning. Continue reading
Posted in May 2025 …
Agallaimh le Scríbhneoirí na Gaeilge/Interviews with Irish Language Writers
I grew up in County Monaghan, in Ulster and I have been profoundly influenced also by Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney and the love of landscape and placename. Continue reading
A Walk on The Wild Side
Two Dublin men, Eric Moran and Ryan Haran, are, for the first time in its 32 year history, in leading roles in ‘Circe’s Carnival of Vice’. Continue reading
Poetry: Mary Howlett, Colm Breathnach, Ray Givans, Diane Fahey, Patrick O Sullivan.
It’s not easy to be in love with
a place that has changed so much. Continue reading
Small Things Like These
The world of the film is a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business, and yet no-one ever speaks of what happens just down the road. Continue reading
What we are reading at the moment
Ó hEochagáin wryly suggests that Irish car windscreen wipers should have special settings to cater for the variety and intensity of the rain: ‘slow, medium, fast, Irish’. Continue reading
Old Wisdoms, with an Irish cultural twist
The premise of Saskia Levy Rogers’ book is to provide a new look at old wisdoms, with an Irish cultural twist. Continue reading
What’s on May/June and beyond
Scoil Gheimhridh Sydney 2025
The Scoil Gheimhridh Sydney 2025 is a long weekend of Irish language and craic. Come and improve your Irish language skills. The key activity of the weekend is Irish language classes. Other
Irish activities provide a break in a convivial environment. These may include the official opening, table quiz, guest speaker, concert and classes in singing, tin whistle, boardgames or dance. Informal
sessions continue every night. Come and join the fun. Continue reading
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