It is not just landscape and history and personal objects and events that shape us, but also the more casual and systematic reading we do …. Continue reading
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ULYSSES FOR BEGINNERS
We think Ulysses is the funniest, the wisest and the most human book, Continue reading
The W B Yeats Society of Victoria
Public Debate: ‘Is it time for a Republic of Australia?’ Continue reading
The Mass
On the hill, the church.
Simple, practical, not ornate. Continue reading
Fenians, Freemantle and Freedom
A 10-day cultural festival which will be celebrating the Irish culture and influence on Australia Continue reading
Synge: Elective Vagrant, and Writer
J.M.Synge and Travel Writing will send its readers back to the work being discussed with renewed interest. Continue reading
Centre Stage, The Bed
Janet Moran’s performance exuded the confidence of a woman secure in her bodily attractiveness and willing to surrender to her drives, while David Pearse’s Bloom was steady, sane, thoughtful, loveable, Continue reading
An Irish Family in WWII
The book’s success, however, depends significantly on the accuracy of her portrayal of the grim reality of what the individuals experience in their varying engagements in the war Continue reading
Misterman by Enda Walsh
a phenomenal one man tour de force
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A Legacy of Myths
Book Review by James McCaughey Colm Toibin House of Names, Picador. May 2017 RRP: $29.99 h/b 261 pp ISBN: 978 1760 551421 The ancient Greeks have left us a legacy of myths. Some of them are still current – the stories of Oedipus or Antigone, for instance. Others, though less known, the story of Pygmalion say, have … Continue reading
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