Another in Tinteán’s ongoing series of tributes to Seamus Heaney, arguing that Heaney’s rapid canonisation was due to his attractive subjects and themes, and to his poems’ suitability for contemporary criticism. Continue reading
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Stretch Returns
A classic (irish) Australian play, A Stretch of the Imagination, returns to a superb rural theatre near Woodend. Continue reading
Noel King’s Knotty Poems
Living as he does in Tralee, many of King’s poems show an intimacy with the sea. Continue reading
John Sexton’s Moon Magic
The delights of this book are to be found in Sexton’s nature poems, each of which edge towards a magicked realm Continue reading
Roger Casement: : ‘A Real Citizen of the World’
Had Casement been a conventional man, married with a wife and family in Ireland, he would never have been free to have travelled as he did in such difficult realms, and re-defined so radically, at such cost to himself, and at such a critical point in history, geo-politics and social justice agendas. Continue reading
Australia’s newest Irish novelist
Evelyn Conlon is now officially an Australian novelist: her latest novel, Not the Same Sky, about Irish Famine Orphans of the 1840s, sits proudly among the Australian novels in Readings bookshop. Continue reading
Jack Hibberd’s Monk O’Neill rides again
A Stretch of the Imagination, a classic of the Australian theatre, will be staged on 16 November 2013. Continue reading
John Redmond Book Launch
Invitation to the launch of a new book by Dermot Meleady on the leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond. Continue reading
Noel King’s Knotty Poems
Anyone who has attempted to draw a knot would know how difficult it is to discern the curves and tucks of hempen lines. King lists the many kinds of knots he paints …. Continue reading
The Flesh and the Spirit
The poems in Irish illustrate the directness of the language, its peculiar music, its power to evoke a history which seldom finds a voice in English… Continue reading
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