I have never smuggled anything over borders before or since and I was extremely nervous, but our car was not searched on the way over. The return trip was a different matter. Continue reading
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Declan O’Rourke, singer, songwriter, and now novelist
by Gill Kenny The critically acclaimed Irish singer/songwriter Declan O’Rourke is well-loved for his deep and meaningful lyrics – especially those contained in his album Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine which was released in late 2017. In 2018, one of its songs, ‘The Great Saint Lawrence River’, was nominated in the Best Original Song … Continue reading
Snow in Alberta, Canada
The sun slips behind the black silhouettes of the Rockies.
Fingers and ears chill with disturbing speed.
Faster than in an Irish winter dusk. Continue reading
Recognition for Irish Australian poets on Imram
We send ‘comhghairdeas’ to both for this important recognition of their work. Continue reading
From the Papers and What’s On
Royal Dublin golf club…
Celebrate a Centenary of Ulysses with Love’s Bitter Mystery at Villa Alba Continue reading
New non-fiction
Book Reviews by Frank O’Shea UNSETTLED. By Rosaleen McDonagh. Skein Press 2021. 111 pp. $30 The farmstead of the grabber is hungry as a stone,But the little homes of Kerry will give us half their own.(The Ballad of the Tinker’s Wife. Sigerson Clifford) We knew them as ‘the tinkers’ when I was growing up in … Continue reading
Irish Poetry and Music Day
A day of Poetry and Music Continue reading
The ‘Contraceptive Train’ and Dr Caroline De Costa
This brave act of defiance, with Caroline as part of the group, paved the way for discussions about access to contraception in the ROI and particularly highlighted the need to start exploratory discussions on the provision of contraception for Irish women living there. Continue reading
Fiche bliain i nGaeltacht Laimbé agus Ráth Chairn: Twenty years in the Lambay-Rathcairn Gaeltacht
What we seldom see in print, though, are those individuals stories from the Lambay-Rathcairn Gaeltacht experiment that point to another kind of success. Éamonn Ó Neachtain is one such person. Continue reading
Ghosts of Irish-Australia: Barnaby Fitzpatrick
Nobody wanted to know convicts in early British settlement of Australia and now family historians are eager to find a connection to a convict in their family tree. How times have changed. Continue reading
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