A book about the recording of Irish music which raises questions about whether Irish traditional music emanates from a distinctive and stable Irish culture or the extent to which it assimilates new and ‘foreign’ influences…. Continue reading
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Dr Fell, from the Director’s Chair
Bernard Farrell’s much-loved first play, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell, ushers Irish theatre into a new international arena, that of psychotherapy: who is ‘normal’ in this comedy thriller? Continue reading
Boots and Court Shoes: Camille O’Sullivan’s Lucrece
Camille O’Sullivan’s long-awaited theatrical and sung adaptation of the Rape of Lucrece opened last night at the Sumner Theatre in Melbourne…. Continue reading
Memorialising the Famine
The text of a talk given at the Famine Memorial in Williamstown on 18 November by Perry McIntyre.
This talk is in two parts. The first concerns memoralisation of the Famine, specifically the background to the building of Sydney Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney incorporated into the wall which offered protection for immigrant women, beginning with the first shipload of workhouse orphan women and, ironically, standing on the site of the original Barrack kitchens. The second part places these young Irish immigrants to Australia between 1848 and 1850 in the context of single female immigration and brings them into a 21st century context. Continue reading
Irish singer meets Shakespeare’s Dark Side
Camille O’Sullivan’s trajectory as a singer of provocative music is unusual…. Continue reading
Climbing Mount Brandon
… climbing Brandon has been part of an ancient pilgrimage route going back to pre-Christian times. Lughnasa on the last weekend in July was the traditional pilgrimage time… Continue reading
Celtic Club to Rise up
Could the new high-rise Celtic Club be in place for 2016, the centenary of another renowned ‘Rising’? Continue reading
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw is not as often performed as one would wish ….
A bold young company, 5poundtheatre, operating out of the Owl and the Pussycat, opposite Richmond Station (Melbourne, Victoria) has changed all that. Continue reading
Monumentality on Photographic Paper
It is odd to be thinking of photographic portraits on heavy paper as monumental. But that is exactly what David Monahan has achieved in his stunning art photo documentary series, Leaving Dublin, on display at the Immigration Museum until 25 August 2013. Viewing it should not be put on a long finger. It’s the sort … Continue reading
Trieste and the Making of a Modern Everyman
Literary tourism is a strange monster – a bit mystical and very superstitious. Cities acquire the properties of second-class relics – one can reverently partake of some of their mana and metaphorically touch the hem or the coffee cup that might have touched the lip. Continue reading
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