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Two feature films and a short film from the Irish Film Festival Reviewed. Continue reading
Three New Documentary films at the Irish Film Festival, including two love songs to Dublin. Continue reading
Two remarkable documentaries, one about clerical violence; the other about the death of an NI journalist. Continue reading
Two more poems from Michael Patrick Moore reminding us of friendship and loss and love during this month of remembering Continue reading
Some of our Irish speakers and learners have appreciated the opportunity to stock up on new Irish language books in Dublin, attend daonscoileanna in Donegal and Waterford, and even to write as Gaeilge. Andrew Hogg provides this account of his recent travels in Bali looking for gamelan music, and an unexpected invitation to a wedding feast Continue reading
The Booker is an annual literary award presented to the novel judged to be the most outstanding published in Great Britain and Ireland. Continue reading
Dermot Bolger’s novel deals with the decline of the landed Anglo-Irish class, the rise and fall of Soviet-style Socialism in Ireland after the establishment of the Free State Continue reading
Famine Rock Commemoration, MISS seminar, Eureka Dinner, Irish Language Summer School Continue reading
A community led ethnography of Traveller culture. Continue reading
Today, a hundred and eighty years later I stand near his grave in the hot, dry semi-desert land of the Australian ‘outback.’ Emigrating to Australia in the 1860s and becoming one of the burgeoning numbers of the Irish diaspora, John, better known as Jack, was part of a heroic effort to develop this new and challenging land, so different in every way from the green fields of Tipperary. Continue reading
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