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The Agonies of Easter 1916
The information is concise and relevant, and demonstrates the diversity of this close cultural friendship group.
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James Joyce, Cinephile
Well-chosen film clips enrich the audience’s experience of the play, Continue reading
‘Is it Literature?’: Finding the music in ‘Finnegans Wake’
His prose is in fact very poetic, very much attuned to the melody of sound. Continue reading
Poetry by Maria Wallace
unspoken words waiting
to be given a sound. Continue reading
Irish men, and a special one – Owen Roe
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
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
