The celebration will include readings from the early Latin and Irish accounts of Carthage’s life, Continue reading
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Remembering St Mochuda (Carthage) and all the Saints of Ireland
It includes the first public recitation from a Litany of the Saints, in an Irish language prayer-book, Continue reading
Poetry
No new life here and ancient yellowing receipts
hung on rusty nails in the long black rafter beams. Continue reading
Bloomsday, 16 June, and the Joyce who loved films
Bloomsday in Melbourne in 2016 celebrates the Joyce who loved film. Continue reading
GALLIPOLI (The Great War)
The peninsula is a beautiful picturesque landscape littered with graves, many of them Irish graves. Continue reading
Poetry
that stream still wound
Its onward carving through ancient
Ground of sod and sedge and glacial sands Continue reading
‘Poems in Memory of my Mother’.
each loss
a truth to be mourned in prayer, then lived beyond. Continue reading
Poetry
they came to this place, made treaties and nature
swearing to die as they did for desperate causes Continue reading
Utopia – home of the human spirit
The story of a quilt which articulates the dreams of Utopians wherever they manifest for a place where there is no rich or poor, no master or slave, where all are equal, and where access to land, healthcare and education is the basis for a society that knows not want and misery…. Continue reading
A poem and a pendant
The letters of this alphabet were trees’. Continue reading
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