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A classic (irish) Australian play, A Stretch of the Imagination, returns to a superb rural theatre near Woodend. Continue reading
Living as he does in Tralee, many of King’s poems show an intimacy with the sea. Continue reading
The delights of this book are to be found in Sexton’s nature poems, each of which edge towards a magicked realm Continue reading
Eileen Haley captures the indomitability of Constance Markiewicz in a quilt which celebrates an eventful life as a free-spirited and pro-active woman. Continue reading
In Melbourne there is no figure that has done more for the collection, study and dissemination of uniquely Irish and Catholic texts. Continue reading
The threat of sudden and violent death from those operating outside the expectations of civilised life is a resonant one for so many other places in our world, not least in Ireland. Continue reading
Had Casement been a conventional man, married with a wife and family in Ireland, he would never have been free to have travelled as he did in such difficult realms, and re-defined so radically, at such cost to himself, and at such a critical point in history, geo-politics and social justice agendas. Continue reading
Women trekked over uncertain ground, took shelter where they could, panned for gold, or tended the campfire for their menfolk. They conceived, gave birth and reared children under canvas in searing heat and dust in summer and in the cold damp in winter… Continue reading
The protagonist’s relationship with her mother is grotesquely deformed by her mother’s evangelical Catholicism, as was her mother’s, by her father. Continue reading
She is not naïve or simple or weak or out of touch. She is powerfully in control of her own life and who she is. Continue reading
