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Twin Room by David Harris

But very definitely single beds… Continue reading →

A Town in Print

A fake new party in Listowel: Tom Doodle promised the citizens that he would open a factory for shaving the hair off gooseberries Continue reading →

From the Papers

Some items from the news – Brexit, Roddy Doyle, Pat Spillane, Bertie Aherne, Mark O’Connor…. Continue reading →

From Dublin with Love

Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage is the best remedy for a bad mood or a feeling that life is going too fast Continue reading →

Call for Abstracts ISAANZ 2019

December 9-12, 2019, Adelaide, South Australia. The 24th Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand conference (ISAANZ) will be held December 9-12, 2019, in Adelaide, South Australia. The theme of the conference is Foregrounding Irish Women : the Antipodes and beyond Call for Abstracts (250 words by May 31) The Antipodes, the opposite, figuratively, geographically, metaphorically. We … Continue reading →

Recalling Daniel Mannix

Morgan’s book, The Mannix Era, is richly personal. It is written with considerable charm and an acerbic wit. But to read it in 2019 is to be overwhelmed by its masculinist perspective. Continue reading →

Radio Days

The wireless in our house in Leitrim in 1941 sat on a high shelf, away from little hands, in the kitchen. It had two batteries, one dry and one wet. Continue reading →

Bridget Watson: from Ireland to Lancashire to Hobart

On 18th October 1831 Bridget Watson arrived in Hobart on the Mary III with her three surviving children … Continue reading →

Irish Women Migrants of the 1850s

Single women seeking work as domestic servants were faced with frequent ‘No Irish Need Apply’ advertisements in newspapers. Yet, most Irish women did find employment, and were successful immigrants. Continue reading →

Pompey and his Family

A new play by Irish-born Meg McNena that will tear at your heart-strings. Continue reading →