TV Programme Alert ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) TV last night featured an interview by Gay Byrne with Edna O’Brien. It’s riveting watching, as they clearly like and trust one another. She speaks from the heart about a compliant childhood troubled by fear of the nuns and of her parents, and of her own attempt to get … Continue reading
A BOOK REVIEW by Frances Devlin-Glass Vivien Igoe: The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses, a Biographical Guide, University College Dublin Press, Dublin, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-910820-06-03 RRP: €40 This is a book that few lovers of Joyce will be able to resist, and they should be urged not to resist. We’ve known since the Linati schema was … Continue reading
‘I now believe that the spiritual life is deeply political’ p.175.
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There was nothing like stern conservative opposition to get Veronica Brady moving …. Continue reading
How do you interpret ‘My yoke is easy and my burden light’ from the perspective of someone whose burden in a post-abuse world is overwhelmingly desolate.
The celebration will include readings from the early Latin and Irish accounts of Carthage’s life, Continue reading
It includes the first public recitation from a Litany of the Saints, in an Irish language prayer-book, Continue reading
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After so many books on him, we desperately needed one by him, which we now have with this anthology of his own words and articles, Continue reading
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