Sinéad O’Connor is the kind of street kid that the whole world, except America, wants to take in and put in the guest room, and feed up with porridge and potatoes …. Continue reading
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Reflections on Evelyn Conlon’s Moving about the Place
A new collection of short stories, some set in Australia, by Evelyn Conlon Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Four new new Irish works, reviewed by Frank O’Shea. Continue reading
Vale, Rob Butler
The death of Rob Butler is a great loss for the Tinteán editors. Continue reading
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
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