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
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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
Birds of Passage and Orphan Girls
A small group of Irish Famine girls, whose average age was sixteen, is the subject of this lyrical and captivating story by Evelyn Conlon. Continue reading
Getting it Right
Getting it Right, a poem by ALAN RODDICK which celebrates Heaney and laments the divisions between communities in Ulster. Continue reading
Jack Hibberd’s Monk O’Neill rides again
A Stretch of the Imagination, a classic of the Australian theatre, will be staged on 16 November 2013. Continue reading
Irish racehorses and Nobel-prize-winning economists
Four Irish horses in the Caulfield Cup pose a challenge to your rationality …. Continue reading
‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman Way’: David Marr on George Pell
Whether his apparently tin ear in dealing with victims and their families is personal inadequacy or an effect of his hierarchical remoteness from his flock is hard to say but maybe, as Marr reports, it is because ‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman way’. Continue reading
Noel King’s Knotty Poems
Anyone who has attempted to draw a knot would know how difficult it is to discern the curves and tucks of hempen lines. King lists the many kinds of knots he paints …. Continue reading
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