Marion Mahony Griffin’s environmentalist principles underpinned her designs for buildings, communities, and town planning. Continue reading
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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
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
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
St Patrick’s Day Breakfast Address
There was a long history of Aboriginal labour, ingenuity and co-operation assisting the newcomers to their land. Continue reading
Marion Mahony Griffin in America and Australia: Transnational Modern Architect
Marion Mahony Griffin, talented Irish-American architect, teacher and environmentalist is better known perhaps in Australia than in the US. Continue reading
A Win, Eventually, for the Yolŋu
The central thesis of Clare Wright’s history of the Yolŋu Bark Petitions is that the Yolŋu people were not consulted prior to the granting of the leases to the bauxite deposits on the Gove Peninsula. Continue reading
Trying too hard to reach Gen Z?
Whilst it’s essential to connect with the younger generation readers and to have continued relevance, Intermezzo feels as though Rooney is trying just a bit too hard to connect with the Gen Z readers Continue reading
Time Gentlemen, Please: Is James Joyce dead?
Straight and dead he may be, but Joyce was from the race of the colonised, not the coloniser; of the oppressed class; not of ‘English’ literature, any more than Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Heaney. Continue reading
Paying tribute to the Irish Famine Orphan Girls
Remembering the brave teens of the Earl Grey Scheme. Continue reading