A stellar line-up for the forthcoming ISAANZ conference in Sydney in December…. Continue reading
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New light on Irish literature and Daniel Corkery
Heather Laird’s splendid book suggests that Corkery is better understood as part of an international anti-colonialist stream… Continue reading
Launching Bloomsday 2013, and Remembering 20 Bloomsdays
The Seven Ages of Joyce: a rollicking piece that reJoyces with humour, pathos, sexuality, musicality, vulgarity…….utter normality. Continue reading
Winged Views of Mortal Endeavour
This poetry collection has three sections where archetypal themes arise: courage versus folly, youth versus experience, or pride and the fall…. Continue reading
Another Joyce course for more advanced readers…
A course on a selection of the more challenging chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Continue reading
Eros and Death in a Swimming Pool
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
A Daughter Remembers
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
Can the Tide of History be turned back?
When he set up a series of properties between Melbourne and the Murray, he was more appeasing in his relationships with Aborigines, making an effort to learn the language, Continue reading
A City in Decline
Dublin was a deposed and distressed capital, a city in decline. Continue reading
Australian Première of Enda Walsh’s play, Penelope
Not specifically Irish in subject matter, but opulent and Irish in its linguistic richness…. Continue reading
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