In 1849 William Smith O’Brien’s interest in foreign travel was boosted on his transportation for High Treason to Van Diemen’s Land, and despite all the problems and irritations of foreign travel in the nineteenth century, O’Brien never gave up foreign travel, and assiduously recorded his experiences Continue reading
The Introduction of Val Noone’s ‘Hidden Ireland in Victoria’ outlines some reasons for the elusiveness of the Irish language in historical records and launches a beautiful metaphor of beachcombing to express the work’s methodology for recovering whatever remains of the Irish Gaelic heritage. Continue reading
An opportunity to see ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’, a macabre tragi-comedy set in a Connemara village. Continue reading
A popular play by an Irish playwright coming up at Williamstown Little Theatre…. Continue reading
A stellar line-up for the forthcoming ISAANZ conference in Sydney in December…. Continue reading
Heather Laird’s splendid book suggests that Corkery is better understood as part of an international anti-colonialist stream… Continue reading
The Seven Ages of Joyce: a rollicking piece that reJoyces with humour, pathos, sexuality, musicality, vulgarity…….utter normality. Continue reading
This poetry collection has three sections where archetypal themes arise: courage versus folly, youth versus experience, or pride and the fall…. Continue reading
A course on a selection of the more challenging chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Continue reading
THEATRE REVIEW Enda Walsh: Penelope. Production by Red Stitch at Theatreworks, Acland St., St. Kilda Date seen: 11 April 2013 Enda Walsh’s play Penelope, is yet another reworking of the final scenes of the Odyssey, this time modernised (as it often is: Joyce and Atwood come to mind) and told from the point of view … Continue reading
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