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New Irish Fiction

Book reviews by Frank O’Shea THE GOOD TURN. By Dervla McTiernan. HarperCollins 2020. 386 pp. ISBN: 978 14607 5679 9 RRP: $32.99 If what you want is a story that grabs you from the opening line and keeps you away from the television and exiled from house duties, here is the book for you. Dervla … Continue reading →

Editorial

Editorial

For some months in 2019-20, Tinteán has been featuring an article on one of the so-called Earl Grey girls. These were young women, mostly orphans, from the workhouses where they had been put during the early days of the Great Famine. They are remembered in particular at a memorial in the Hyde Park barracks in … Continue reading →

20 years of Táin and Tinteán

The Irish Program at Melbourne’s ethnic community radio station 3ZZZ and the Celtic recently invited Tinteán to make a radio programme in celebration of twenty continuous years of Australian Irish Australian publication: the magazine Táin (1999-2007) was a full-colour publication that morphed into the hard copy of Tinteán in 2007. The magazine finally moved online … Continue reading →

More Irish Film Festival Reviews

Two more film reviews from the Online Irish Film Festival (19-29 November). Three more will be reviewed in our January issue. Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens Reviewed by Shauna Stanley Everyone remembers the first time they read a Seamus Heaney poem. I was aged 10, sitting in a prefab in 4th class, … Continue reading →

Irish Film Festival – Online in 2020

6TH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL PROGRAM  The popular annual Irish Film Festival returns from 19 – 29 November with its biggest line-up ever. Moved online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, cinephiles all over Australia can now catch the best new Irish cinema releases without leaving their homes. The online festival program is packed … Continue reading →