Invitation to the launch of a new book by Dermot Meleady on the leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond. Continue reading
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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
John Sexton’s Moon Magic
Sexton is not one to pull his punches… Continue reading
Negotiating the Fringe in Edinburgh
Irish plays in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Continue reading
Poetry page
old books, riverbanks, Bogs, and wool just washed, And hung out in the wind to dry. Continue reading
The Man They Call The Banjo
Interest in new performances of The Man They Call the Banjo has been coming in from all over the country, Continue reading
Irish Writers’ Centre
If you are an Irish literature enthusiast or a writer of any kind – amateur, emerging, or prolific and well-known – you are in the right place. Continue reading
Colm Tóibín at Melbourne Writers’ Festival
whether reform is possible following the crisis of child abuse Continue reading
Two views of Bloomsday 2013
Joyce’s life and work handled with irreverence and erudition… Continue reading
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