Adelaide Fringe and Festival March 2026 The Irish Club Comedy Gala You’ll Be Grand and Other Contortions https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/you-ll-be-grand-and-other-cognitive-distortions-af2026?genre%5B%5D=comedy Music: The Shamrocks https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/the-shamrocks-af2026 Music: The Shambolicks https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/irish-at-the-norwood-af2026 Music: Cranberry Tribute https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/cranberry-bush-a-tribute-to-the-music-of-kate-bush-and-the-cranberries-af2026 Western Australia Fenian Festival 2026 Irish Music & Dance Weekend – Queenscliff 1-3 May 2026 Victoria National Celtic Folk Festival – Portarlington 5-8 June 2026 … Continue reading
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Music as resistance
For Kneecap, Irish is a living language that is simply a part of their daily life. But it is also part and parcel of their politics, an embodied stance of resistance against British cultural and political hegemony. Continue reading
Spotlight in Irish Film Production: NO18 Films: Made in Dublin
he video ‘was created to capture Brian’s deep knowledge of the craft, specifically the specialised stretching and table cutting techniques that modern machines simply cannot replicate…and serves as a visual record of a vanishing skill and an important piece of the cultural fabric of Dublin’. Continue reading
Filíocht dátheangach/Bilingual poetry: Colin Ryan, Julie Breathnach-Banwait, Dymphna Lonergan, David Harris.
She brought ashore a language / and a pocketful of scraps: / a seagull nested in her mind / and she found shelter in a doorless house / that would let her neither in nor out / though she escaped in a dream / and saw before her a tribe / who reminded her of the dead Continue reading
From Crown to Harp
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty was Undone 1922-1949 A Book Review by Séamus Bradley David McCullagh: From Crown to Harp: How the Anglo-Irish Treaty was Undone 1922-1949, Gill Books, Dublin, 2025.RRP: €26.99ISBN: 9781804581469 gillbooks.ie In Irish secondary school history books, the journey from the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty – that set up the Free State – … Continue reading
Believing in the Extraordinary
Much of Irish novel writing has descended into Celtic Noir in rejection of Irish romanticism. ‘Boy from the Sea’ sifts through it all. Continue reading
The Belfast Express – Book Review
The Belfast Express by Brigid Carrick follows Brianna Robinson, a young midwifery student in 1970s Dublin, facing societal and institutional oppression from the Church and government. Amidst grim realities of poverty and gender control, Brianna’s resilience allows her to challenge authority, fostering friendships and personal growth in a compelling narrative of struggle and defiance. Continue reading
What we are reading, watching, attending
Anne Duffy-Lindsay was attracted by Australia’s ‘forward thinking’ and the ‘space’ she would find. Continue reading
What’s on March/April and beyond
Irish in Australia: Irish-themed Movies, Tours, and Festivals Continue reading
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