On being first-timers at Lake School, and teaching Irish at Bungendore. Continue reading
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VOICES of the Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Melbourne
In 2022, the commemoration committee searched for a new way of ‘bringing the girls to the table’. Continue reading
The Lost Arch
by Mae Leonard I knew there was something not quite right the minute I rounded the bend of the road after Birdhill and was moving towards Annacotty on the last mile home. I was at the outskirts of Limerick on the main Dublin Road where the terrain is familiar to me and I knew there was … Continue reading
Feisty Irish Women and Irish National Foresters
Susan has had international recognition with her interview on The Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio1…The Irish National Foresters were a Friendly Society that commenced in Ireland and then started in Melbourne in 1886 … Continue reading
What’s on in December 22 – February 23: Irish language and music summer schools, Brigidfest, Films
2-7 January 2023: Lake School in Koroit Join the Lake School of Celtic Music Song and Dance in Koroit VIC January 2-7 2023. You can learn fiddle, whistle, bodhran (irish drum), harp, concertina , guitar, ukulele to mention but a few of over 100 classes, workshops, sessions, dances and concerts. Extensive program for Kids and … Continue reading
Raucous, Rambunctious and Riotous
The cast of Love’s Old Sweet Songs was led by the magnificent and maleficent MC, who, in true music hall style got us all wound up and raring to go for the opening of the show musical eisteddfod – a turning point / ‘tuning fork’ in the road in Joyce’s life. Continue reading
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What’s on in November and January: A Course, Symposium, Commemoration, and Irish language and music summer schools
12 November 22: Ulysses for everyone – a guided tour This interactive course, a mix of presentation and discussion of text, assumes no prior knowledge of Ulysses, although having read the five chapters we recommend (1, 4, 6, 13, 18, or as many as you can manage), will certainly help to make the day a richer reading experience … Continue reading
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Filming Ulysses
Gilsenan’s poetic method involves matching lines with a private visual vocabulary, rather like treating the novel as ‘found poetry’ pi Continue reading
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Claire Keegan Makes a Bigger Splash
In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan eschews righteous anger about the Magdalen Laundry system, in favour of a strikingly new angle of vision. Continue reading
What’s On in October and later
A film festival, a feast of family, a Joyce-themed concert, an Irish language school, and a paper on the history of religion…. Continue reading
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