Renee Huish would count this play, In Search of Owen Roe, as one of the finest she has enjoyed at the much-loved theatre (La Mama). Continue reading
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In Search of Owen Roe: a new play by an O’Neill
A new Australian play about Irish forebears and failure. Continue reading
Four centuries of O’Neills and an unmarked grave in Perth.
Vanessa O’Neill’s play, In Search of Owen Roe O’Neill (see What’s On for details) on her great grandfather, Owen Roe O’Neill (no, not the c17 hero, but he does get a guernsey) opens at La Mama on 24 June for a two-week season. Continue reading
Waywords and Meansigns: new ways into ‘Finnegans Wake’
‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading
How did Joyce get entangled with Charlie Chaplin?
What if Chaplin and Joyce, an inveterate consumer of cinema, had met by chance in Paris, and Chaplin had taken it into his head to make a silent film of ‘Ulysses’? Continue reading
‘The Racker’ in Melbourne for Bloomsday
Nature of Event: pReJoyce: Joyce, Dublin and Beyond. The Racker is a Dublin-based entertainer, poet, raconteur, singer. Fresh from the Joyce Tower at Sandycove, where he has often performed his own brand of Dublinesque comic poetry, Racker has been lured to Melbourne to warm us up for Bloomsday. He will perform his sequel to Ulysses, THE TRUTH … Continue reading
(Very) Short Joycean Film Showcase
Invitation to make a (very) short Joyce film, or act in one. Continue reading
Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s,
..his study covers what could arguably be the most significant and influential period of O’Faoláin’s writing and fledgling political and journalistic life. Continue reading
An Irish-Speaking Island
The 19th century is commonly regarded as the century in which the Irish language suffered a calamitous collapse: a century in which it survived on the margins, largely irrelevant in politics, in law, in education. English (it is argued) was the vehicle of modernisation, Irish increasingly the language of the poor, the old, the ragged tellers of ancient stories. Continue reading
Recital of unique Irish Litany.
The celebration will include readings from the early Latin and Irish accounts of Carthage’s life, Continue reading
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