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
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Staking Sovereignty as an Artist
The production took a sensual, carnival-like approach, with music and costumes pulled from many different eras, the actors quickly swapping roles and scenes as Stephen observes and reacts. Continue reading
Otherworld Stories
CD Review by Niki na Meadhra Helena Byrne: Scéal: a Collection of Irish Stories, Music & Poetry Available at http://helenabyrne.com/sceal RRP: €12 Helena Byrne is an experienced storyteller, seanchaí, who also works as an actor and director, in theatre, founding the Break-Away Project Performance Company in 2012. Her new CD, Scéal, begins with an introduction to the Ireland … Continue reading
The Hurley Maker’s Son
This exquisitely written book captures a period of transition not only in Irish society but also in the author’s own life. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Melbourne 2016 Festival
a rebel without a pause, a rebel with a cause. Continue reading
Bloomsday 2016 Seminar
Young men and their autobiographical fiction and poetry…. Continue reading
Bloomsday 2016 Annual Dinner
Nature of Event: Kick back before the show or after the Seminar at Papa Goose Restaurant. The annual Bloomsday Dinner will follow the seminar and is designed to flow into the evening Opening Night performance of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, directed by Wayne Pearn. When: 16 June 2016, … Continue reading
Let Wonder Hold Sway
Diane Fahey’s poems about her dying mother are eloquent with understated grief… Continue reading
Commemorations and Protest Poetry
Many of the participating poets had been enthusiastic supporters of the Gaelic League – Irish language advocates, poets, playwrights, newspaper writers on cultural and socialist matters. Their loss must have been a severe one to the emergent Free State. Continue reading
‘Wishes for my Son’ and ‘Comrades’ – two poems of the Easter Rising 1916
For I wish you more than I
Ever knew of glorious deed Continue reading