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Sydney Winter School 2019: Sunburnt Irish Symposium
The Sunburnt Symposium is now part of the Australian daonscoileanna, the summer and winter Irish language intensives and also featured in some Australasian Irish Studies conferences. Continue reading
Brilliantly Inventive Stoppard Play for Bloomsday
Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
From the Papers
European elections, murder, the courts, two true Dubs Continue reading
A LIFETIME OF STORIES
Report by Shauna Stanley A Lifetime of Stories (2019) launched at the Irish Film Festival. It is a multilingual short feature, spanning less than 40 minutes, written, produced and directed by the Director of the Festival Enda Murray, as an open access project available for free viewing on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPJ18eJn24 The film features five older … Continue reading
A First Book Gem
He came from nothing, but his success left him isolated and alone. Continue reading
VLAD & ME
Written and performed by James McCaughey who is a regular contributor to Tintean. It also features Matthew Horsley on uilleann pipes VLAD & ME Conversations with the soul about reincarnation and other inconveniences 4 — 5 JUNE 2019 Southbank Theatre, The Lawler PRESENTED BY Redfinch productions ‘Mr President, when I look into your eyes I see a … Continue reading
From the Papers
Some items from the news – Brexit, Roddy Doyle, Pat Spillane, Bertie Aherne, Mark O’Connor…. Continue reading
Call for Abstracts ISAANZ 2019
December 9-12, 2019, Adelaide, South Australia. The 24th Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand conference (ISAANZ) will be held December 9-12, 2019, in Adelaide, South Australia. The theme of the conference is Foregrounding Irish Women : the Antipodes and beyond Call for Abstracts (250 words by May 31) The Antipodes, the opposite, figuratively, geographically, metaphorically. We … Continue reading
From the Papers
Sportsman in trouble; Irexit, RIP Richie Ryan Continue reading