Williams refers to the Túatha as the ‘god-people’ to convey their indeterminate status between humanity and divinity Continue reading
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The Wing Orderly’s Tales.
It might all lead to dull or grim stories, but Gebler’s characters are all human, damaged certainly, but each with his own story.
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Joyce with his Nose in the Air
Handed such a whiffy text, director Wayne Pearn took a deep breath and turned it into a play piece of encaptivating ingenuity Continue reading
2017 Global Irish Diaspora Congress, Dublin, August 15-19
Proposals are invited for Research Papers and/or Sessions and/or Posters Continue reading
Killurin to Kalgoorlie: the making of Hugh Mahon
The Honourable Hugh Mahon is one of the most interesting personalities in the national legislature. There has been more stirring incident in his career than in a dozen ordinary men’s lives. Continue reading
‘1904 and all that…’: Barry Jones on James Joyce
James Joyce was one of a long list of great writers who failed to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Ibsen, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola, Hardy, Henry James, August Strindberg…. Continue reading
Poetry by Maria Wallace
this island scorns, defies life
from sunrise to the midnight moon
Bloomsday Events – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce’s literary masterpiece IS to be sniffed at. Continue reading
Henry Lawson’s Irish Characters
Lawson used Irish characters in his multicultural cast as a literary device, in the main a comic one Continue reading
Poetry
Poems full of time telling of many stories and of many lives. Continue reading
