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
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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
A Light in the Window
In this highly readable memoir, Mary, in conjunction with her daughter, Tessa, narrates how a ‘reserved freckle-faced bookworm’ (p.26) from Ballina ‘a small town in a small country on the western periphery of Europe’, became one of Ireland’s most recognisable and celebrated leaders, both domestically and internationally. Continue reading
The Flesh and the Spirit
The poems in Irish illustrate the directness of the language, its peculiar music, its power to evoke a history which seldom finds a voice in English… Continue reading
John Sexton’s Moon Magic
Sexton is not one to pull his punches… Continue reading
Celebrating Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) at the Celtic Club
The passing of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, possibly the best poet of his generation will be celebrated with readings of his poetry Continue reading
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