A Film Review by Frances Devlin-Glass Verdigris (1923), Directed and written by Patricia Kelly and starring Geraldine McAlinden and Maya O’Shea. Cinematography by Tania Freimuth. Verdigris is a gentle film about violent men, and it takes us on a slow journey of revelation. The title is a poetic evocation of the toll time takes on a metal … Continue reading
A powerful documentary which exposes a trade in babies, high death rates in Mother and Baby homes, and a reluctance to tell the truth. Continue reading
Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading
The transience of human life is something that Arthur returns to throughout this collection of essays. Continue reading
October is exciting in Melbourne. Steve Carey asks if Joyce is dead. The Irish Film Festival lands. There’s Halloween at Comhaltas and the Celtic Club, and much more. Continue reading
An Irish-Australian story told in tribute Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, ‘High King of Irish Broadcasting’, and a GAA/Australian Football League connection. Continue reading
Evelyn Conlon, novelist, elected member of Aosdána, explores the relationship between fiction and history, in relation to her own fiction.
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A film review of Kneecap by Isla Sutherland Kneecap, Screen playwright and Director, Rich Peppiat, Starring Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Cinematography by Ryan Kernaghan, Distribution by Wildcard [1](Ireland) Curzon Film (United Kingdom), 2024. Kneecap explores Northern Irish identity and what it means to be part of the ‘ceasefire generation’ amidst … Continue reading
A book about Tory Island’s history and mythology directed at the younger reader as well as the curious outsider. Continue reading
Dominating Hagstone is Rathglas, a colony of ‘nun’-like women, home to refugees from the violence that is typically visited on some women in the modern world. Continue reading
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