…the most astonishing thing is the quality, and enduring interest, of what’s between the covers. Continue reading
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Galway to Port Jackson
This short novel takes its title from the chorus of the moving and immensely popular modern Irish folk song The Fields of Athenry. However, it is not ‘the book of the song’. The song provides the inspiration, the theme and the emotional register but not the story. Continue reading
A Song Cycle for Nora Barnacle
Nora Barnacle was known to be a plain speaking woman, practical, stoical, yet with as much mettle in her as there was in Joyce. Continue reading
Internationalising Irish Studies at Maynooth: The 21st ISAANZ Conference
Such internationalism was appropriately in keeping with the conference theme of Ireland’s historical and cultural diversity. Continue reading
The Agonies of Easter 1916
The information is concise and relevant, and demonstrates the diversity of this close cultural friendship group.
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James Joyce, Cinephile
Well-chosen film clips enrich the audience’s experience of the play, Continue reading
‘Is it Literature?’: Finding the music in ‘Finnegans Wake’
His prose is in fact very poetic, very much attuned to the melody of sound. Continue reading
First the Exhibition; now the Fine Art Book
This is a glorious edition, which adds a lot to the exhibition so many of us enjoyed at the Immigration Museum in Flinders Street – in 2012. Continue reading
Irish men, and a special one – Owen Roe
Renee Huish would count this play, In Search of Owen Roe, as one of the finest she has enjoyed at the much-loved theatre (La Mama). Continue reading
In Search of Owen Roe: a new play by an O’Neill
A new Australian play about Irish forebears and failure. Continue reading