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Eurovision Update: It’s MOLLY vs GUY!

Miegunya Lecture on Famine and its effect on Health

Nature of Event: Public Lecture: ‘The Long Shadow of the Great Famine on Irish people’s Health at home and abroad’ by Prof. Cecily Kelliher, Chair of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, University College Dublin. When: Wednesday 18 March at 6.30pm Where: Copland (Basement) Theatre, 98 Pelham St., Carlton, Vic. 3053. Cost: Free but it is essential to … Continue reading →

Brigidfest 2015: Women and girls in a war zone

The point was eloquently made: religion or politics were often not essential factors of many of these deaths Continue reading →

Riverrun: Melodio[sities] in pure effusion

Riverrun, the theatrical tour de force based on the final section of Finnegans Wake, devised and performed by Olwen Fouéré, in making the choice to dramatise the Liffey rather than the characters offers an unexpected but very clarifying innovation… Continue reading →

IRELAND’S EUROSONG 2015: You wouldn’t recognise it!

Eurosong, Ireland’s contest to select a singer for Eurovision, is a different beast in 2015. No shirtfronts. No drug allegations. No mention of defamation proceedings. And even the computers worked! Continue reading →

Riverrun, at the Adelaide Festival

Nature of event: Performance and discussion of genesis of riverrun, a one-woman show interpreting the role of the River in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and at the end of the season, a discussion between the creator, Olwen Fouére and Professor Ronán McDonald. Where: Adelaide Festival and University of Adelaide, respectively. When: The show runs at … Continue reading →