12 November 22: Ulysses for everyone – a guided tour This interactive course, a mix of presentation and discussion of text, assumes no prior knowledge of Ulysses, although having read the five chapters we recommend (1, 4, 6, 13, 18, or as many as you can manage), will certainly help to make the day a richer reading experience … Continue reading
Filed under Irish language …
Who knew? Irish language words for which there is no English equivalent.
I once astounded my mostly Australian-born family by using the phrase ‘put it on the long finger’ to suggest postponing something. Continue reading
Ar thóir gach ní In search of everything
She points out how the dog is happy to see him home too and the cat in her own way. The bougainvillea has grown wild without his care, the olives need picking. She then notices his inability to respond and offers her arms, in which he finally releases his emotions, relieved to be home again. Continue reading
From the Papers
Snippets from the news: Fada officially protected; All Irelands, Brian Cowen… Continue reading
What’s On
Upcoming Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on Heaney’s visit to Australia in 1994. Continue reading
Award-winning Irish Films at the Sydney Film Festival
Three award-winning Irish films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival Continue reading
Playing with Pennies
History tells us that when the stakes were substantial, Pitch and Toss games could become extremely serious. In Dundalk in 1914 a man died following an altercation during a game of Pitch and Toss when an argument arose as to who was entitled to the winnings. Continue reading
Are the Torys Irish?
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
New Irish Fiction
Three recent novels with Irish authors or Irish themes. Continue reading
Gentle Stories of Loss and Longing
A language needs nurturing, love and polishing to keep it present. This is no easy feat when we are far away from the home country
where pieces of it spill into our daily lives whether on road signs, TV or generally in the way we speak English in Ireland and how we express ourselves. Continue reading
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