An opportunity to see ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’, a macabre tragi-comedy set in a Connemara village. Continue reading
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20th Bloomsday in Melbourne (2013)
It’s full of comedy, music and even some dance, Continue reading
New light on Irish literature and Daniel Corkery
Heather Laird’s splendid book suggests that Corkery is better understood as part of an international anti-colonialist stream… Continue reading
Launching Bloomsday 2013, and Remembering 20 Bloomsdays
The Seven Ages of Joyce: a rollicking piece that reJoyces with humour, pathos, sexuality, musicality, vulgarity…….utter normality. Continue reading
Winged Views of Mortal Endeavour
This poetry collection has three sections where archetypal themes arise: courage versus folly, youth versus experience, or pride and the fall…. Continue reading
Another Joyce course for more advanced readers…
A course on a selection of the more challenging chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Continue reading
VOICES FROM THE PAST
This was one of the earliest commercial spoken word recordings in English by any literary figure. Continue reading
Asking for Directions
Asking for Directions is a chronicle of journeys… Continue reading
Boots and Court Shoes: Camille O’Sullivan’s Lucrece
Camille O’Sullivan’s long-awaited theatrical and sung adaptation of the Rape of Lucrece opened last night at the Sumner Theatre in Melbourne…. Continue reading
Silent
If ‘Tino’s tale is a familiar one, there is nothing predictable about Pat Kinevane’s telling of it in his tour de force, ‘Silent’. Continue reading
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