Mickey. Make the silence speak before you ever open your mouth. In other words never speak to a class or make presentation until you have their complete and undivided attention. Continue reading
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Abhaile
what path what peace lies before you Continue reading
Sebastian Barry’s Gentlemen
Credit has been slow in coming … for the members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the RIC. Continue reading
A Tale of Bottom-Feeders
This book, by a new writer, comes heavily laden with credentials…. Continue reading
Who Says ‘Ulysses’ is too Difficult to Read?
Contesting the notion that Joyce’s Ulysses is too hard for ordinary mortals to read…. Continue reading
Advanced Joyce course 23 March 2014
This course is designed to meet headlong the fears of those who’ve been persuaded that Joyce’s is just for brainiacs and nerds Continue reading
Celebrating sacred places
Tanka, conventionally used to celebrate nature and the seasons, is also perfect for registering the evanescent responses of the cultural outsider to new landscapes. Continue reading
On Hearing of the Death of Seamus Heaney
Do you agree that when poetry and music meet and match, the magic of the senses release the greatest of satisfactions? Continue reading
On first teaching Heaney
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
Stretch Returns
A classic (irish) Australian play, A Stretch of the Imagination, returns to a superb rural theatre near Woodend. Continue reading
