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The Celtic Club, located in central Melbourne, is Australia’s first Irish Club Continue reading
Four Irish horses in the Caulfield Cup pose a challenge to your rationality …. Continue reading
… it will probably come as no surprise to learn that the racists amongst us have returned to a tried and true favourite – anti-Irish prejudice … Continue reading
Whether his apparently tin ear in dealing with victims and their families is personal inadequacy or an effect of his hierarchical remoteness from his flock is hard to say but maybe, as Marr reports, it is because ‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman way’. Continue reading
I wish to establish, once and for all, the right of John Field to be credited with the invention and naming of the nocturne. Continue reading
Anyone who has attempted to draw a knot would know how difficult it is to discern the curves and tucks of hempen lines. King lists the many kinds of knots he paints …. Continue reading
In this highly readable memoir, Mary, in conjunction with her daughter, Tessa, narrates how a ‘reserved freckle-faced bookworm’ (p.26) from Ballina ‘a small town in a small country on the western periphery of Europe’, became one of Ireland’s most recognisable and celebrated leaders, both domestically and internationally. Continue reading
The poems in Irish illustrate the directness of the language, its peculiar music, its power to evoke a history which seldom finds a voice in English… Continue reading
Sexton is not one to pull his punches… Continue reading
The passing of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, possibly the best poet of his generation will be celebrated with readings of his poetry Continue reading
