Tinteán

  A Book review by Frank O’Shea Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling Gill Books, Dublin. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780717175536 RRP: €14.99 Here is a book to make any reader over 50 realise how out-of-touch with modern life (s)he is. And we are not talking about an inability to understand the … Continue reading →

A story by Michael Boyle ‘There’s a cow in a hole. Come quick!’ ‘Where? Where is it?’ I asked. ‘Between the middle lane and Mayogall’, said my sister Marie. ’Get there before her head goes under the water!’ In the late 1980s my wife Annette and our young son Patrick were back visiting my parents’ … Continue reading →

  The blockbuster Star Wars, The Last of the Jedi, may not be the kind of movie that our readers fancy. Some of the action is set on Skellig Rock, featured in the October edition of Tintean. https://tintean.org.au/2017/10/06/a-day-on-skellig-rock/  You will find a poetic tribute to Skellig, released to coincide with the film, at https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/exclusive-stunning-360degree-video-of-skellig-michael-released-ahead-of-star-wars-36385775.html