Early on there is lots of inconsequential banter, but once the real story-telling starts, the veneers maintained by the men are stripped away, revealing somewhat complex human beings Continue reading
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Stories Told around the Fires of Time
one imagines that, as with all oral story-tellers, the verse tethers memory to the story’s emotional highs and lows. Continue reading
Anchor Books, an Irish-Australian Enterprise
Anchor Books, producing quality books, designed and printed in Australia, by less well-known historians. Continue reading
At a Crossroads: Archaeology engages with Myth
The textual lore this book on Archaeology draws on is not only saga and epic, but also place-lore, and interestingly, hagiography. Continue reading
Do you Remember Capuchin Annuals?
…the most astonishing thing is the quality, and enduring interest, of what’s between the covers. Continue reading
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
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