Jimmy’s Hall – an offering from a film-maker who set a very high standard in Irish independent cinema with The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and a sad decline from that apogee. Continue reading
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Disintegrating Socialist Utopia
A FEATURE by Frances Devlin-Glass Two years ago just before Easter, I was preparing a paper on Joseph Furphy’s articles for the Bulletin for a very special mobile conference to ‘God’s Own Riverina’ (Furphy’s euphoric name for the area between the Murray and the Lachlan Rivers where he was running bullock teams to remote stations, just … Continue reading
Poetry
So I wept for want of a lost love, as all sons their mothers. Continue reading
Roger Casement in the 16 Lives series
Angus Mitchell lives and works as an historian in Ireland; he was born in Africa and educated in England, and from 1992-98, he lived and worked in Brazil. What better credentials to write authoritatively about the internal milieu of Casement’s professional career? Continue reading
Remembrance Mass
A mass to remember the dead….on 9 November Continue reading
A New Stage in the Saga of Irish Famine Orphans
The saga of 4000 Irish orphans who were transported to Australia by the British government during the Great Famine has taken a new twist with the publication of two books this year, one in Kerry and one in Donegal, about the less well known Irish end of the story. Continue reading
Australian Premiere of Irish Musical
All the actors are also musicians, and fantastic musicians, and dancers. Fiddles, banjos, double basses, guitars, a drum kit, tambourine, piano accordion, concertina Continue reading
A Centenary for The Bad Boy of Welsh Literature
Thomas’s best-loved work is his play for voices, Under Milk Wood. A late work, it perhaps belongs in the category described by George Orwell as ‘a good bad book’ with its mixture of vulgarity and sentimentality. The prayer of Revered Eli Jenkins is an example of how the most famous of Anglo-Welsh poets inspires both love and embarrassment in Wales. Continue reading
Home Rule for Ireland
A Feature by FRAN BADER marking the centenary of the Third Home Rule Bill A centenary ago on 18 September 1914, the Third Home Rule Bill for Ireland went on the statute books in Westminster, with its implementation simultaneously postponed for a year or for the duration of WW1. At the time there was no … Continue reading
Lady Historian and Pro-Communist Patrician
It’s a tale of an Australia which has disappeared – bourgeois, genteel (be-hatted and gloved), learned after its own fashion, but also full of patrician pro-communists. Continue reading
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