The premiere season of Runaway Priest by Felix Meagher, postponed because of pandemic, is about to open. Continue reading
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Deep Diving with Sirens
Nature of Event: Course: Join Joyce experts Bruce Beswick and Frances Devlin-Glass for a day with Sirens, one of the most pivotal and moving chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses, in which Joyce experiments with musical form in narrative fiction. What does it add to our understanding of Bloom’s humiliation to have him listening to music while his rival … Continue reading
Brigid: from Goddess to Saint to Poet
The poem begins with a recognition of the unbroken chain (slabhra) from the celtic Brigid to the abbess who built her own convent in Kildare, to a modern day Brigid taking care of her family, and through to the writer, the poet. Continue reading
Lake School Online January 2021
Can you make you make an online event work? Can you evoke some of the major emotions and experiences online, that you have experienced live? Continue reading
Constance Markiewicz
She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons. Her funeral was one of the biggest Dublin has seen. Continue reading
Brigidfest 2021
Gabrielle Williams on Women of the Irish Resistance. Continue reading
The Lake School goes Online
The Lake School in Koroit goes online in 2021. Enrol for classes in fiddle, whistle, pipes, harp, flute, guitar, ukulele, bodhran, singing, dancing, Paddy Fitzgerald’s Irish Music Class, Irish session tunes, cello, poetry. PLUS special events – Paddy Fitzgerald’s CD launch, Mark and Lisa McDonnell’s Slow Session, Tutors Concert, Blackboard Concert, Spud Poets Night, Stars on The … Continue reading
Irish Film Festival – Online in 2020
6TH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL PROGRAM The popular annual Irish Film Festival returns from 19 – 29 November with its biggest line-up ever. Moved online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, cinephiles all over Australia can now catch the best new Irish cinema releases without leaving their homes. The online festival program is packed … Continue reading
Forthcoming seminar on Swift
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series – Online Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series – ONLINE 17th November 20206.30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time Topic: The death of Swift’s printer John Harding: new evidence that implicates Swift Speaker: Dr. Craig Pett, journalist and researcher Abstract: John Harding, the printer of the seditious Letters written by Jonathan Swift under the pseudonym … Continue reading
Save the Date for Brigidfest 2021
Sunday, 7 February 2021, 12 noon SAVE THE DATE The BrigidFest Committee is working hard to continue the wonderful tradition of celebrating Irish and Australian women each February. It is our intention to hold the event as a lunch in conjunction with The Celtic Club, however, a virtual backup plan seems prudent. We will keep … Continue reading
