The Black Sheep of the O’Neill Clan

The Black Sheep of the O’Neill Clan

Theatre Review by Anna-Rose Shack Vanessa O’Neill: In Search of Owen Roe – La Mama, Carlton, Melbourne. 26th May 2016   Vanessa O’Neill’s In Search of Owen Roe is a one-woman show of gently dramatised storytelling, playing at La Mama theatre in May 2016 after a sold-out season in 2015. Owen Roe, who led an … Continue reading →

Memories of a 1950s Irish leftie in St Kilda Melbourne

Memories of a 1950s Irish leftie in St Kilda, Melbourne by Dr Dennis Walker The extraordinary cultural mix of St Kilda inevitably brought together people of radically opposing ideologies.   Dr Dennis Walker sheds some light on one aspect of this diversity remembered from his childhood: the Irish immigrant nationalists. My father, Patrick Joseph Walker, was born … Continue reading →

Children of the Rising, an untold story

Children of the Rising, an untold story

A BOOK REVIEW by Dymphna Lonergan Joe Duffy: Children of the Rising: the untold story of the young lives lost during Easter 1916, Hachette Books Ireland, Dublin, 2016 RRP: €20 ISBN: 9781473617056 This is a surprising book. The title, with its euphemistic ‘lost’ for the word ‘died’ might give the impression that this will be a … Continue reading →

Bloomsday 2016 Annual Dinner

Nature of Event:  Kick back before the show or after the Seminar at Papa Goose Restaurant. The annual Bloomsday Dinner will follow the seminar and is designed to flow into the evening Opening Night performance of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, directed by Wayne Pearn. When: 16 June 2016, … Continue reading →