By Mary Melcherts   Last year, my friend Brigid and I were widowed. Brigid was missing her sister’s family in Corcomore, County Limerick and I was still coming to terms with the emptiness of my home. When she asked me to accompany her to Ireland, I was unsure at first, but in the end, I … Continue reading →

A Tribute to Angela Gehrig (1966-2016), a champion of Irish Studies at Newman College by Dianne Hall I last saw Angela at a meeting a few months ago at a routine meeting for the O’Donnell Fellowship committee. It was typical of so many meetings about Irish studies I attended with her over the years. She … Continue reading →

Nature of Event: Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future is presented by ACCA in association with Melbourne Festival. In Samuel Beckett’s one-act play Krapp’s Last Tape, the curtain rises to the mise-en-scène: ‘a late evening in the future’. For his exhibition of the same name, Irish artist Gerard Byrne employs a similar sense of drama: transforming … Continue reading →