The death of Rob Butler is a great loss for the Tinteán editors. Continue reading
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Shane MacGowan: The Bottle and The Damage Done
MacGowan’s anarchic spirit is well served by Julien Temple, who writes and directs, bringing a lifetime of music filmmaking and a keen sense of place and time. Continue reading
Jack Charlton, ‘A Dictator, But a Nice One’
Jack Charlton, the subject of a new Irish film, showing at the Irish Film Festival. Continue reading
Families in Stress
The opening scenes in Wildfire set a background for this gritty story of pain and difficulty coming to terms with the past. Continue reading
Thin Lizzy, Not Meant to End in 1983
A film featured in the forthcoming Irish Film Festival (online in 2021) about the versatile Phil Lynott. He could sing in so many styles from pop to metal. Continue reading
Why Do You Write in Irish?
The world seemed clear. The questions started later in life or when we went to the cities and were asked to convert and change our language to English, sometimes politely sometimes not so much. We got used to the requests, ‘can you please say that in English?’ or the statements ‘We speak English in here’ or ‘I’m afraid we don’t speak that language here’. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival 2021
It’s Irish Film Festival Time again with seven Australian premieres and in 2021 it’s online. Continue reading
Poems from Colin Ryan
Ní fhágfaidh mé agat ach focail
lán de bhrí … I’ll only leave you words, full of meaning Continue reading
Balm for the Homesick
Pathways/Cosán This virtual exhibition by visual artist Bernie Joyce explores how the Connemara people and landscape inspired Patrick Pearse as a teacher, writer and leader. Pathways sends the viewer on a journey back in time to when the Celtic Revival was in full swing. This was a period when artists, poets and writers turned their … Continue reading
ISAANZ25 Call for Papers
The 25th Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand conference (ISANZ25) will be held at Auckland University December 6-8. Continue reading