Holy Cow! Bloomsday in Melbourne’s 25th season celebrates women, fertility, the uses and abuses of tradition. Continue reading
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Brian Bourke, Barrister and Irishman (1929-2018)
What was Irish about Brian Bourke? Of course, he had the name and the face, a map of Ireland. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday in Melbourne
While the setting and the craic is unmistakably Dublin, the literary tour embraces some Irish writers (Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan) but mostly lashes out at English classics – the revenge of a supremely gifted Irish writer on English letters. Continue reading
Emotional Intelligence and Family Crisis
Book Review by Frances Devlin-Glass David Park: Travelling in a Strange Land, Bloomsbury, London, 2018 ISBN: 9781408892787 RRP: £11.69 This is an extraordinary novella from a Northern Irish writer I was not aware of, but it makes me very curious to read more of his fiction. It’s a tale of a snow-locked father and son (with … Continue reading
A Seminar at the University of Western Sydney
A seminar on the writing of Claire Keegan coming up in Sydney. Continue reading
Good News from Irish Queensland
The Queensland Irish Association is back… St Pat’s Day, Brisbane….A Pioneer Family from the Darling Downs Continue reading
Prisoners of Memory
Beside such extreme acts of violence, ordinary life was of course lived ordinarily, decently, by scores of citizens. The vast majority of people wanted no truck with the killing. Continue reading
Joyce and Divorce
Kuch has succeeded in opening Ulysses a little further, and, in giving us another option to consider in the fictional future of the Blooms, offered us another opportunity to read Joyce’s magnificent book once more anew. Continue reading
World Première of play on Oliver St. John Gogarty
The Life and High Times of Oliver St John Gogarty – the Real Buck Mulligan Continue reading
Poems by Rosemary Blake
A poet’s tribute to her father, a two literary forebears …. Continue reading
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