A book about the recording of Irish music which raises questions about whether Irish traditional music emanates from a distinctive and stable Irish culture or the extent to which it assimilates new and ‘foreign’ influences…. Continue reading
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When you lock your doors…
French’s novel traces the gradual deterioration of the moral certainties and ethical uprightness of all the main characters. Continue reading
Melbourne before Mannix: Catholics in Public Life 1880-1920
Some of the questions raised then about the place and role of religion in secular society remain with us still. Continue reading
‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph’: Not a curse, an aspiration
Monica Corish’s poems celebrate liminalities. These songs that sing of the west of Ireland avoid conventionalities, clichés, the overly familiar. Continue reading
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