they were usually ‘a reused glass spirit, wine or mineral bottle often containing a carved wooden cross, with a ladder leaning against it inside, sometimes (but not always) filled with water’. The water was usually holy water, or at least marketed as such. Continue reading
The cast of Love’s Old Sweet Songs was led by the magnificent and maleficent MC, who, in true music hall style got us all wound up and raring to go for the opening of the show musical eisteddfod – a turning point / ‘tuning fork’ in the road in Joyce’s life. Continue reading
The rediscovery of a champion of the victims of war, of women and a campaigner against censorship in the twentieth century. Winifred Letts is honoured by the Irish Government. Continue reading
Early settlers of the Port Fairy area of Victoria and their family legacies.
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There’s a border in Ireland now
that began – some would say –
when O’Neill and O’Donnell
of Tyrone and Tyrconnell,
took flight from where the
blue horizon is swallowed up
by the feral Atlantic in Donega Continue reading
In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan eschews righteous anger about the Magdalen Laundry system, in favour of a strikingly new angle of vision. Continue reading
2022 Irish Film Festival programme has landed. Continue reading
How the schools became divided. Continue reading
An outstanding novel by an Australian now living in Ireland. Continue reading
Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading
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