The poems were inspired by my tours of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper with the Irish Defence Forces in South Lebanon and Kosovo. Continue reading
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From the Green Room of ‘The Plough and the Stars’
STEVE GOME, recently nominated for a Green Room Award, plays Peter, the toy soldier, in The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s classic tragic-comedy about the Easter Rising, and has been reflecting on a play he increasingly admires: A bunch of people crammed by circumstance into a confined area who know each other – as family, friend or foe … Continue reading
Poetry
your arms around me as in my life’s first hours; Continue reading
Pure and Sublime Poetry: A conversation with visual artist Robert Amos
Sara Jewell, of Waywords and Meansigns, interviews a Canadian Visual Artist. Joyce aficionado Robert Amos has had a copy of Finnegans Wake since 1969. One of Victoria’s best known artists talks frankly to us about Finnegans Wake, decorating the entirety of the James Joyce Bistro in Victoria, British Columbia, and writing out (by hand) one of … Continue reading
Celtic Mythology Short Story Competition,
Celtic mythology or folklore must be a fundamental element of the story Continue reading
POETRY – Outlaws by Tom Phillips
Homesickness was a wound but our dear children
in time helped us better relate to it all here, Continue reading
Approximately in the Key of C by Tony Curtis
launch of two new titles from Arc Publications Continue reading
Irish Ambassador at Famine Rock Commemoration 2015
His Excellency, the Irish Ambassador to Australia, the Honourable Noel White, will be the guest speaker at this year’s event. Continue reading
A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
Home thoughts from abroad
Each visit home is another stage in the grieving process Continue reading
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