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
Looking ahead, Mary Elizabeth Calwell’s memoir of her distinguished father Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973) will be a useful guide to what might be called a family view of the many controversies of his political and public life. Continue reading
