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
Snippets from the news: Fada officially protected; All Irelands, Brian Cowen… Continue reading
Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading
Former footballer gives a riveting account of the workings of the fraud squad, from an insider’s perspective. Continue reading
Three new Irish or Irish Australian fictions reviewed by book-devourer, Frank O’Shea Continue reading
Upcoming Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on Heaney’s visit to Australia in 1994. Continue reading
One hundred years ago this month, Ireland found that it had to deal with former comrades fighting and killing each other. Continue reading
One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. Continue reading
it appears to be an insult directed against the Irish. How ,then, did it end up as a name for an English political party? Continue reading
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