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Bloomsday 2016 Seminar
Young men and their autobiographical fiction and poetry…. Continue reading
Bloomsday 2016 Annual Dinner
Nature of Event: Kick back before the show or after the Seminar at Papa Goose Restaurant. The annual Bloomsday Dinner will follow the seminar and is designed to flow into the evening Opening Night performance of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, directed by Wayne Pearn. When: 16 June 2016, … Continue reading
The Race is Over
A Poem by Noela Frawley The Race is Over Melbourne Cup Day November fifth 1963 Gatum Gatum wins ridden by Jimmy Johnson Mum’s favourite jockey ……………………………………………..Archbishop Mannix lies dying ……………………………………………..in his cold bedroom at Raheen …………………………………………………a single bar heater gives no comfort ……………………………………………..four months less a day ……………………………………………..short of … Continue reading
Easter Rising film and Symposium in Sydney
A Film and Symposium at the University of New South Wales, 15-16 June 2016 Continue reading
Ireland Out of Eurovision Final
Ireland is out of Eurovision. So what went wrong? Continue reading
An Australian in Dublin for Easter 2016
Dublin was one big fete. Continue reading
Remembering the Rising
It is important that in remembering and commemorating what happened that we don’t glorify or justify it. Continue reading
Let Wonder Hold Sway
Diane Fahey’s poems about her dying mother are eloquent with understated grief… Continue reading
Portrait of a patriot – Thomas Kent
A Book Review by Renée Huish Meda Ryan: 16 Lives: Thomas Kent, O’Brien Press, Dublin, 2016. ISBN: 9781847172655 RRP: €14.99 paperback; €10.99 ePub. In the wake of The Easter Rising in Ireland in April 1916 fourteen men were executed by firing squad at Kilmainham gaol in Dublin. Thomas Kent was executed in Cork. All the firing squad executions … Continue reading