The Irish-Australian Literature Symposium of 2019 may be remembered in years to come as the event that marked the formal initiation of ‘a distinctive new field of research’. Continue reading
Filed under Poetry …
Dirty Linen
When the day of your confinement came / they gave you nothing to ease the pain… Continue reading
Seasonal Leitrim Poems, and a Dublin one, by Mary Guckian.
Poems from the Leitrim soil…. Continue reading
Poems for an Irish Family
A bush poet turns his mind to his Famine ancestors. Continue reading
Flinders Moon by David Harris
Flinders Ranges hilltop, full moon eve. Continue reading
The People, Places and Events that Shape Us
He was a monk in a scriptorium
when, tongue out in concentration,
he applied himself to decorative capitals: Continue reading
Bloomsday in Brisbane
Readings, music, Irish literature more generally, and eating and drinking – Bloomsday at the Queensland Irish Association in Brisbane. Continue reading
Poems by Colin Ryan
Danta as Gaeilge with English translations Continue reading
Twin Room by David Harris
But very definitely single beds… Continue reading
Romantic Ireland – not dead and gone.
Christopher Kock belongs to a small but select class – he was a proud Irish Tasmanian and literary. Continue reading
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