The delights of this book are to be found in Sexton’s nature poems, each of which edge towards a magicked realm Continue reading
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Of Constance Markiewicz and dancing goddesses
Eileen Haley captures the indomitability of Constance Markiewicz in a quilt which celebrates an eventful life as a free-spirited and pro-active woman. Continue reading
Dr. Nicholas O’Donnell: ‘A Towering Figure’
In Melbourne there is no figure that has done more for the collection, study and dissemination of uniquely Irish and Catholic texts. Continue reading
Seamus Heaney – Translator
The threat of sudden and violent death from those operating outside the expectations of civilised life is a resonant one for so many other places in our world, not least in Ireland. Continue reading
Roger Casement: : ‘A Real Citizen of the World’
Had Casement been a conventional man, married with a wife and family in Ireland, he would never have been free to have travelled as he did in such difficult realms, and re-defined so radically, at such cost to himself, and at such a critical point in history, geo-politics and social justice agendas. Continue reading
On the Edges of Revolution
Women trekked over uncertain ground, took shelter where they could, panned for gold, or tended the campfire for their menfolk. They conceived, gave birth and reared children under canvas in searing heat and dust in summer and in the cold damp in winter… Continue reading
Brutal Encounters
The protagonist’s relationship with her mother is grotesquely deformed by her mother’s evangelical Catholicism, as was her mother’s, by her father. Continue reading
Exit, a King
O’Toole attended in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on scholarship after the Abbey Theatre, Dublin passed on him due to his poor grasp of the Irish language. Continue reading
A sneak preview of Hibberd’s Stretch
Australia’s newest Irish novelist
Evelyn Conlon is now officially an Australian novelist: her latest novel, Not the Same Sky, about Irish Famine Orphans of the 1840s, sits proudly among the Australian novels in Readings bookshop. Continue reading
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