Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday Love’s Old Sweet Songs – an Irish variety concert – music from the James Joyce Songbook signals the final trumpet-blast of a suite of events held in Melbourne to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ulysses, Joyce’s Annus Mirabilis. First, there was the now-streamable feature film, Love’s Bitter Mystery, on … Continue reading
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Check What’s On for the full list of films. We will publish more reviews in our next edition Continue reading
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2022 Irish Film Festival programme has landed. Continue reading
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Eireborne Dancing Australian Tour Sydney born world champion Irish dancer Liam Costello is on an Australian tour with the company Eireborne. See the links below for background story and tour dates. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jul/23/liam-costello-australian-three-time-irish-dance-world-champion?CMP=share_btn_link http://www.eireborne.com/dates-bookings/ Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series Semester 2, 2022 Program Tuesday 23rd August, 6.30pm VIA ZOOM ONLYDr Matthew Grubits, Charles Sturt University, “The … Continue reading
Heaney’s poem ‘Punishment’ will also be removed from the OCR’s GCSE poetry anthology from September 2022. GCSEs are the basic level of qualification in British education, while A-levels are taken by secondary school students aged between 16 and 18. Continue reading
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McKinty’s The Island is a page-turner, and often quite chilling and surprising in the turns it takes. Continue reading
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To enhance this understanding, there are two male actors on stage playing, respectively, Leopold Bloom (Chris Broadstock) and Blazes Boylan/Stephen Dedalus (Luke Belle). They also remain on stage, mostly in the background and provide visual context in the numerous vignettes or re-enactments of events referred to by the Mollys, including appearing as representations of various male characters. Continue reading
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Upcoming Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on Heaney’s visit to Australia in 1994. Continue reading
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Analysing the Results by Jeff Kildea Most of the reporting on the outcome of the elections in May for the 90-member Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) has concentrated on Sinn Féin’s winning the highest number of seats and the highest proportion of first preference votes (FPVs). Some have called it ‘historical’ and have referred to a … Continue reading
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What did I expect from a movie that was originally written as a screen-play, cancelled three times, adapted for film, and filmed in seven days? Continue reading
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