A background history of Ireland’s diplomatic relations with Israel and Palestine. Continue reading
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In the field with Irish Historian David Fitzpatrick:
Documenting the memories of revolutionaries and others in Clare with David Fitzpatrick.
A Chat with Ryan Kelly
Ryan Kelly reflects on the need to know our history and share our stories, including a need for this history to be spoken about and taught in schools. Continue reading
Famine Era Paintings
A collaboration between two groups—one based in Connecticut and the other in Cork. Continue reading
Reflections on Beckett provoked by ‘Dance First’
Beckett’s life, gravely played by Gabriel Bryne, unspools magnificently in a sequence of austere performed memories. Continue reading
More films from the Irish Film Festival
A powerful documentary which exposes a trade in babies, high death rates in Mother and Baby homes, and a reluctance to tell the truth. Continue reading
Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell Monument
Unveiled for the first time on this day, August 15, 1882, the monument was designed and sculpted by John Henry Foley and finished up by his assistant, Thomas Brock. It is often believed to be Foley’s greatest work. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.
Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading
Mercurial Meditations on Life and Death and the Everyday
The transience of human life is something that Arthur returns to throughout this collection of essays. Continue reading
The Long Arc of a Hurley Ball
An Irish-Australian story told in tribute Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, ‘High King of Irish Broadcasting’, and a GAA/Australian Football League connection. Continue reading
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