Women’s World Cup The Irish Women’s team have qualified for the Women’s World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand in 2023. Their qualification was the result of a 1-0 win over Scotland in Hamden Park, Glasgow in October. That victory was tarnished after a social media posting of the team singing part … Continue reading
Book Review by Frank O’Shea A GUEST AT THE FEAST. By Colm Tóibín. Picador 2022. 305 pp. $34.99 Colm Tóibín is the current Laureate for Irish Fiction, succeeding Sebastian Barry. As part of that role, he will be expected to deliver a number of public lectures; it is not clear whether this book is part … Continue reading
Book review by Frank O’Shea HAVEN. By Emma Donoghue. Picador 2022. 257 pp. $32.99 Some years ago, Tintean carried an article by Mike O’Shea about a day trip to Ballinskelligs by a group of 19 from Killarney, https://tintean.org.au/2017/10/06/a-day-on-skellig-rock/. The article told that up to ten boats, each with a dozen people, visited the island every … Continue reading
The rediscovery of a champion of the victims of war, of women and a campaigner against censorship in the twentieth century. Winifred Letts is honoured by the Irish Government. Continue reading
Early settlers of the Port Fairy area of Victoria and their family legacies.
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Sebastian Barry explores the influences on him as a writer in a series of three lectures. Continue reading
Covid Figures According to a report in The Independent, the counties with the highest incidence of Covid-19 were Westmeath, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Sligo, Carlow, Waterford and Donegal. Counties with the lowest rates were Dublin, Wicklow, Monaghan, Kildare, Meath, Cork and Clare. Priestless It was a new word to us here in Australia. It appears that the … Continue reading
New Irish fiction by Sheila O’Flanagan, Steve Cavanagh and James Lawless. Continue reading
Contemporary Irish fiction, mainly by and for women. And Adrian McKinty’s latest. Continue reading
Irish Bostonian writer on crime figures. Continue reading
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