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Irish General Election: A Screenshot
By Sean Farrell As this is written, we are well into the second week of the General Election campaign; the vote to take place on Saturday 8 February. Though the early opinion polls show the two main parties neck and neck, as they have been virtually since 2016, it has not been a good start … Continue reading
Dirty Linen
When the day of your confinement came / they gave you nothing to ease the pain… Continue reading
The Women Who Changed Australia
The subtitle of this book reflects the ambitions of its author: ‘The women who changed Australia’. It’s a big claim… Continue reading
Nevil Shute’s Irish Connection
Book review by Sean Farrell and Frank O’Shea Nevil Shute. On the Beach. Text Publishing, Melbourne 2019. With Introduction by Gideon Haigh. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781822268327 RRP: $24.99 h/b It is easy now to forget how close the world may have come to nuclear war during the Cuban crisis of 1962. In a way, we … Continue reading
Editorial
As we prepare this edition of Tinteán, Australia is going through a crisis that makes part of the country seem like a war zone. Most of the editorial team live in Melbourne and have been spared the anxieties of the East coast fires, as well as those in South Australia and now the destruction … Continue reading
The Holly Bough – as Cork as Christy Ring
The Holly Bough is one of those unique publications that deserves a heritage rating: indeed, it may already have one. Seventy years ago in Cork and Kerry, it was as much part of Christmas as Santa and the candles perilously lit in curtained windows. Stories, poems, puzzles, games, it kept us busy for days. … Continue reading
From the Papers
The Compensation Culture We have referred on a few occasions in these reports to the way that Ireland seems to have developed a booming industry around compensation for injuries, real or feigned. Now the Independent has written a revealing set of stories describing ways that the legal and the medical professions cooperate to manipulate the … Continue reading
Happiness is …
This is a love story, one that could be easily summarised in a single paragraph, but that would be to demean it. Because it is above all a paean to a simpler time, simpler people and a simpler meaning of happiness. Continue reading
Women in the Church
Mary McAleese bemoaned how ‘women were deliberately made invisible and programmed to stay invisible’ because of church structures that are ‘designed to create and maintain the invisibility and powerlessness of women.’ Continue reading
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