Eavan Boland wrote of the wounds carried in the Irish psyche through the death of its heroes. Continue reading
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Canonical Australian writers with ties to Ireland
Women writers in Australian in the first half of the twentieth century were flying blind in the face of a culture that didn’t really expect them to be successful as writers Continue reading
Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile by Colin Ryan
Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile (Heat Haze and other stories) Book Review by Dymphna Lonergan Colin Ryan Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile. Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2019. 100 pp. ISBN: 978 1 7844 203 3 RRP: €10 A heat haze, according to Wikipedia, is ‘a shimmering of the air near the ground that distorts distant views’. ‘Ceo Bruithne’ is … Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Two newish Irish fiction writers making waves globally. Continue reading
Bloomsday Metempsychosed
Bloomsday in the Year of Plague. A metempsychosis. Continue reading
About my Belfast Girls
Jaki McCarrick talks about the writing, at ‘white heat’, of her play, ‘Belfast Girls’. Continue reading
Poetry as Autobiography
Poetry and Paul Kelly’s preferences provide insight into the singer/songwriter’s mind. Continue reading
A Runaway Juggler, a Missing Boy and a Mother and Cleric in Crisis
A new musical play by Felix Meagher Continue reading
The Irish Australian Literature Symposium (22 November 2019)
The Irish-Australian Literature Symposium of 2019 may be remembered in years to come as the event that marked the formal initiation of ‘a distinctive new field of research’. Continue reading
Resurrecting our Feminist Dead
This novel is a paeon of love to Sydney and to Michael Davitt and the Ladies Land League. Continue reading
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