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From the Papers

Snippets from the news: Fada officially protected; All Irelands, Brian Cowen… Continue reading →

Eireborne Dancing Australian Tour Sydney born world champion Irish dancer Liam Costello is on an Australian tour with the company Eireborne. See the links below for background story and tour dates. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jul/23/liam-costello-australian-three-time-irish-dance-world-champion?CMP=share_btn_link http://www.eireborne.com/dates-bookings/ Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series Semester 2, 2022 Program Tuesday 23rd August, 6.30pm VIA ZOOM ONLYDr Matthew Grubits, Charles Sturt University, “The … Continue reading →

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine orphans: the Bridget Effect

Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading →

English exam board removes works of Irish writers to promote diversity

Heaney’s poem ‘Punishment’ will also be removed from the OCR’s GCSE poetry anthology from September 2022. GCSEs are the basic level of qualification in British education, while A-levels are taken by secondary school students aged between 16 and 18. Continue reading →

God Bless the English

It would be nice to say that it is usually employed as a term of affection and perhaps it is; but even then, there is an undertone of disparagement, a hidden adjective with its own sting. Continue reading →

Seasonal Poems

Vermeer would have made much of it Continue reading →

Fraud in Ireland

Former footballer gives a riveting account of the workings of the fraud squad, from an insider’s perspective. Continue reading →

A Magnificence, and a Mammary, of Mollys

To enhance this understanding, there are two male actors on stage playing, respectively, Leopold Bloom (Chris Broadstock) and Blazes Boylan/Stephen Dedalus (Luke Belle). They also remain on stage, mostly in the background and provide visual context in the numerous vignettes or re-enactments of events referred to by the Mollys, including appearing as representations of various male characters. Continue reading →

New Irish Fiction

Three new Irish or Irish Australian fictions reviewed by book-devourer, Frank O’Shea Continue reading →

What’s On

Upcoming Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on Heaney’s visit to Australia in 1994. Continue reading →