Three award-winning Irish films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival Continue reading
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What’s On
Bloomsday events in Melbourne. Continue reading
From the Papers
Different items that caught our attention Continue reading
‘Venerating’ and Abusing the Mothers
A moving and useful novel about historical practices that could disappear from collective memory and that need to be understood from the point of view of how they impacted generations of mothers and children. Continue reading
Between Two Hells
One hundred years ago this month, Ireland found that it had to deal with former comrades fighting and killing each other. Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Two new writers and one well established. Continue reading
Ulysses @ 100
Bloomsday’s first feature film, and an extravagance of Molly Blooms planned for the stage. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. 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
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