Tinteán

On Re-reading Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

A Literary Feature by Frances Devlin-Glass I recently took the plunge and taught for the first time a novel I’ve been reading and writing about since it first came out in 2006 (one of the earliest essays was for Táin, predecessor to Tinteán in 2006, the year of publication of Carpentaria). Since first writing on it, … Continue reading →

Napoleon’s Irish Doctor

O’Meara later wrote a series of letters and a book titled Napoleon in Exile, published in two volumes in 1822 about his time with Napoleon. Continue reading →

New activities to see in Dublin: a traveller’s tale

It had been many, many, years since my sister and I had been upstairs on a double decker bus. Just holding on to the two side bars on the steps going up was enough to bring back memories of running up those steps as teenagers and of boys using them to swing down without touching the steps, to the annoyance of the bus conductor. Continue reading →