The winner of the Percy French Prize for Witty Verse. Continue reading
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Cuckoon’s Nest
Working through Irish-music tune-names for an article in the 3rd edition of Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Fintan Valelly was time-travelled back to the 1800s, conjured by those melodic ‘handles’ into a heaving landscape of people, lives, places and the everyday. Continue reading
Poetry by Michael Boyle
The only 1916 rebel to be given a state funeral Continue reading
Poems from Colin Ryan
Poems in Irish by Colin Ryan. Continue reading
Eavan Boland: Giving poetic voice to women.
Eavan Boland wrote of the wounds carried in the Irish psyche through the death of its heroes. Continue reading
Poetry as Autobiography
Poetry and Paul Kelly’s preferences provide insight into the singer/songwriter’s mind. Continue reading
three poems by Colin Ryan
Irish Language poems by Colin Ryan Continue reading
The Irish Australian Literature Symposium (22 November 2019)
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
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
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