…the most astonishing thing is the quality, and enduring interest, of what’s between the covers. Continue reading
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‘Is it Literature?’: Finding the music in ‘Finnegans Wake’
His prose is in fact very poetic, very much attuned to the melody of sound. Continue reading
The Swans of Lough Erne
On a windswept rugged mountainside in South West Donegal, three Melbourne cousins recently climbed the mountain to honour their grandfather, who lost his life seventy years earlier in the crash of an RAF Sunderland flying boat, whilst embarking on a mission patrolling for U-boats in the North Atlantic. Continue reading
Waywords and Meansigns: new ways into ‘Finnegans Wake’
‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading
Dáibhí de Barra and the Scribal Tradition
Dáibhí de Barra was the scribe of an Irish manuscript prayer book which he copied in 1833 and which is now held in the State Library of Victoria (MS 10595). The prayer book contains a litany in which, unusually, the Munster saints Finbarr, Olan and Mochuda (St Carthage) are invoked. Continue reading
The Spirit of Eureka at Gallipoli
On the 26 August 1914, as a member of the 12th Battalion, G Company, Captain Joseph Lalor sailed aboard Transport A7 Medic from Fremantle for overseas duty. Continue reading
Gallipoli – an Irish, as well as an Australian, campaign
Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar (The Foggy Dew) Continue reading
The Sons of Erin and the Mahogany Ship
During 1967, Monash decided to abolish some of the Clubs and Societies because they were considered too frivolous to subsidise and one of these, unfortunately, was ‘The Sons of Erin’. Continue reading
Travelling in Ireland – Notes and Sketches along the way
Our First Day in Ireland & the day the IRA have declared a ceasefire – to take place at midnight tonight. Continue reading
Riverrun’s Olwen Fouéré talks to Tinteán
Riverrun, an adaptation of the last section of Finnegans Wake, by Olwen Fouéré, had its genesis in Sydney in 2011…. Continue reading
