Thomas Kinsella contributed significantly to the post-War invigoration of Irish poetry. Continue reading
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Keneally, A Man for the Ages
Still writing, still stirring, Keneally is a model for the ages. Continue reading
From the Papers
WORLD Sports Personality, ahead of tennis and golf and motor racing and football and … Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Sine fadas all over the place. Continue reading
From the Papers and What’s On
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Celebrate a Centenary of Ulysses with Love’s Bitter Mystery at Villa Alba Continue reading
Completely Different
New Books reviewed by Frank O’Shea. Continue reading
New non-fiction
Book Reviews by Frank O’Shea UNSETTLED. By Rosaleen McDonagh. Skein Press 2021. 111 pp. $30 The farmstead of the grabber is hungry as a stone,But the little homes of Kerry will give us half their own.(The Ballad of the Tinker’s Wife. Sigerson Clifford) We knew them as ‘the tinkers’ when I was growing up in … Continue reading
Ghosts of Irish-Australia: Barnaby Fitzpatrick
Nobody wanted to know convicts in early British settlement of Australia and now family historians are eager to find a connection to a convict in their family tree. How times have changed. Continue reading
From the papers
Snippets from Irish Newspapers Continue reading
Looking for Paddy Moriarty
This book by two Darwin-based journalists, is a comprehensive account of the mystery of Paddy Moriarty’s disappearance. Continue reading
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