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Nollaig Shona Daoibh Go Léir
Nollaig Shona Daoibh Continue reading
Jindabyne Irish Festival 2015
An exciting 3-day program has been compiled to cater to a range of Irish tastes. Continue reading
An underwhelming Ken Loach film
Jimmy’s Hall – an offering from a film-maker who set a very high standard in Irish independent cinema with The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and a sad decline from that apogee. Continue reading
Diaspora Event
The challenges involved in starting life in a new country are daunting, and are faced by many Irish every year. Continue reading
Belfast Noir With Adrian McKinty
Prior to presenting at the Celtic Club, Adrian will be launching ‘Belfast Noir’ a collection of short stories in November in the USA. Continue reading
Brigid Fest 2015
Coming to terms with the Troubles: women in Northern Ireland and the Troubles Continue reading
Maria Edgeworth and the Homeric story
Long before James Joyce’s brought his allusive novelistic craft to bear on the Odyssey, another Irish novelist, likewise practiced in the art of allusion, Maria Edgeworth, made extensive reference to the Homeric story Continue reading
Irish Famine Orphans Commemoration Day
There is a surprising wealth of information in local and world history in the reminiscences of this event and how the struggles and displacement of these women pioneers, the refugees of their day, mirror life today. Continue reading
Saving St. Brigid’s: Session at the Crime and Justice Festival 2014
At the top of a hill in south-west Victoria, surrounded by rolling green hills that fall away to the Southern Ocean, sits a grand old red-brick church. Continue reading
