Vanessa O’Neill’s play, In Search of Owen Roe O’Neill (see What’s On for details) on her great grandfather, Owen Roe O’Neill (no, not the c17 hero, but he does get a guernsey) opens at La Mama on 24 June for a two-week season. Continue reading
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The Last Minstrel
I have just finished a painting of the fair at Ballycastle which had impressed me no end from the description in the old song. Continue reading
Q&A WITH MARGARET BYRNE
Northern Ireland’s Margaret Byrne is CEO of Premiership club Sunderland. She tells John Hagan about her background, how she scored a dream job, and her role in a great soccer club. Continue reading
On Hearing of the Death of Seamus Heaney
Do you agree that when poetry and music meet and match, the magic of the senses release the greatest of satisfactions? Continue reading
Of Constance Markiewicz and dancing goddesses
Eileen Haley captures the indomitability of Constance Markiewicz in a quilt which celebrates an eventful life as a free-spirited and pro-active woman. Continue reading
Australia’s newest Irish novelist
Evelyn Conlon is now officially an Australian novelist: her latest novel, Not the Same Sky, about Irish Famine Orphans of the 1840s, sits proudly among the Australian novels in Readings bookshop. Continue reading
Celtic Club to Rise up
Could the new high-rise Celtic Club be in place for 2016, the centenary of another renowned ‘Rising’? Continue reading
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