Bloomsday’s Revival of James Joyce’s Exiles, 15-25 June Exiles (1919), James Joyce’s only play, explores questions key to his masterpiece Ulysses (1922). What is love? If love is constrained by conventional bonds of fidelity, is it love at all? This surprisingly modern take on polyamory and its dark side, jealousy, is a rare dramatic gem that must not … Continue reading
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Irish History Professors in Irish Universities:Brief Lives series. No. 5. Robin Dudley-Edwards (1909-1988)
Dudley, as he was always called, was a formidable scholar, a towering and legendary figure. ..He combined flamboyance and eccentricity with scholarship and imagination. Thirty-five years after his death people still often talk about him. He was unique. Continue reading
Blast from our sectarian past
As someone who for more than 25 years has researched and written about the story of Sr Liguori (aka Bridget Partridge), I was not aware there was a mystery to be solved. Continue reading
Alice Cashin – the Queen of Marrickville.
When the war was declared, at the age of 44, she offered her services to the British government. She also changed her middle name from the Irish, Alanna, to the more Norman/English Eleanor. She would be known as Alice Eleanor throughout her war years and revert to Alanna on her return to Australia. Continue reading
A Right Royal Cup of Tay
Tea drinking may be associated with English culture, but it is still very much part of Irish culture too. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes of James Joyce’s ‘Exiles’
James Joyce’s forgotten masterpiece Exiles explores the subject of ethical free love as well as new gender scripts which are more legible now than they were a century ago. Continue reading
THANK GOD FOR BOB MAGUIRE
Father Bob Maguire was less a larrikin than a rebel who believed in helping the poor and calling out injustice…. Continue reading
Slán ó Chroí le Maelíosa Stafford Goodbye from the Heart
We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Maolíosa Stafford. Tomás de Bhaldraithe has sent us this account of Maelíosa’s many achievements followed by a translation: Continue reading
The Irishman who Shot the Duke of Edinburgh
The author, Simon Smith, is a filmmaker who has recorded stories from around the world, and that background is seen in the writing as he fills in little details and concentrates on the lives, likes and troubles of the main characters. Continue reading
What’s On in May-June 2023
Enjoy Irish or Irish-Australian events around the nation. Continue reading
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