I once astounded my mostly Australian-born family by using the phrase ‘put it on the long finger’ to suggest postponing something. Continue reading
Filed under An Gaeltacht …
New Irish Fiction
Three recent novels with Irish authors or Irish themes. Continue reading
The Forgotten Mayo Famine Girls Remembered
A statue and a book to tell the story of the girls who left Mayo in the Great Famine to come to Australia. Continue reading
Ath bhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir!
The year 2018 has been deemed Bliain na Gaeilge, (Irish Language Year). Continue reading
Synge: Elective Vagrant, and Writer
J.M.Synge and Travel Writing will send its readers back to the work being discussed with renewed interest. Continue reading
Urban Irish
Urban Irish is a language with a distinctive past and, one would hope, a distinctive future. Continue reading
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