Diane Fahey’s poems about her dying mother are eloquent with understated grief… Continue reading
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Commemorations and Protest Poetry
Many of the participating poets had been enthusiastic supporters of the Gaelic League – Irish language advocates, poets, playwrights, newspaper writers on cultural and socialist matters. Their loss must have been a severe one to the emergent Free State. Continue reading
‘Wishes for my Son’ and ‘Comrades’ – two poems of the Easter Rising 1916
For I wish you more than I
Ever knew of glorious deed Continue reading
The Man They Call The Banjo
the forbidden romance, the love triangle and the mystery surrounding the death of Australia’s most iconic figure – The Jolly Swagman Continue reading
‘The Pulse’ with Bernard Ryan
My radio program is not “Celtic’ – though Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ is read ‘religiously’ this time on my show every year! Continue reading
A Tsunami of Grief – Poets of the Rising and their friends.
Bloomsday in Melbourne’s A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of the Easter Rising will be a poetry reading with musical accompaniment. It features poems by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as poems about them by their friends, with dramatic biographical accounts interwoven through the readings. Directed and MC’d by Liam Gillespie, with cast including: Renee Huish, … Continue reading
Poetry by Michael Whelan
These poems tell a powerful story. Continue reading
Poetry Book Launch
Both the challenges and radiant moments of the relationship of mother and daughter are given enduring form Continue reading
‘Peacekeeper’ by Michael Whelan
The poems were inspired by my tours of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper with the Irish Defence Forces in South Lebanon and Kosovo. Continue reading
Commemorative Events of the 1916 Easter Rising at the Celtic Club
The Melbourne Celtic Club’s Cultural Heritage Committee is holding a series of commemorative events Continue reading
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