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Tinteán marks the passing of Professor Elizabeth Malcolm on 19 May 2026. Her contribution to Irish-Australian scholarship was immense. Continue reading
In Old Norse, there are two words for Viking: víkingr refers to a person, while víking is an activity. Neither word is inherently negative nor associated with violence. Continue reading
Éan Creiche Le Tommy Fogarty Go luath san earrach, lá álainn tráthnóna a bhí ann. Bhí an ghrian go híseal sa spéir, loinnir as na carranna, solas súilíneach. Bhí mé i mo shuí sa trácht ag éisteacht le podchraoladh, ‘The Rest is History.’ Bhí Tom agus Dom ag plé an Chogaidh Mhóir. Bhí an trácht … Continue reading
To encourage a future of peace and prosperity for all of Ireland, O’Toole and McBride carve their way through vast swathes of the past, providing historical context and logical, fact-based arguments. Continue reading
John Banville’s ‘The Singularities’ promises something akin to a crime fiction, but continually frustrates that expectation of plot. Continue reading
I liked him because he wouldn’t back from anyone or thing. No. He’d rush headlong into whatever he perceived an adversary and flail away like a mad thresher. Continue reading
Creidimid this is the most southerly Pop-Up Gaeltacht and Ciorcal Comhrá in the world. Continue reading
Irish in Australia: Irish-themed Movies, Tours, and Festivals Continue reading
The novel is melodramatic in its tropes of obsessive love, rape, incest and suicide, but it is also satirical, as Australian critics noted.
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Joyce, Groucho Marx and the fraught sexual politics of women in the cut-throat Joyce industry. Continue reading
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