Event: Belfast International Arts Festival Where: Belfast – various venues When: 11th October to 29th October Cost: see: belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/Festival Box Office on 028 9089 2707 or drop into Festival Box Office at the MAC. Further information: Belfast International Arts Festival; Brochure;
For isn’t everything, if looked at closely,
a little off key: lovers and dancers
only a step out, a step away . Continue reading
Faust’s biography of Louis MacNeice clearly illustrates the constraints placed on him and his generation by Britain’s continuing aversion to most things European, save the delights of Paris… Continue reading
Many of the participating poets had been enthusiastic supporters of the Gaelic League – Irish language advocates, poets, playwrights, newspaper writers on cultural and socialist matters. Their loss must have been a severe one to the emergent Free State. Continue reading
the forbidden romance, the love triangle and the mystery surrounding the death of Australia’s most iconic figure – The Jolly Swagman Continue reading
My radio program is not “Celtic’ – though Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ is read ‘religiously’ this time on my show every year! Continue reading
it was a terrible beauty because of the fundamental transformation of the legend of Ireland and her people which it initiated and the transition to a new Ireland which it inaugurated – for Ireland was indeed to be ‘changed, changed utterly’. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Melbourne’s A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of the Easter Rising will be a poetry reading with musical accompaniment. It features poems by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as poems about them by their friends, with dramatic biographical accounts interwoven through the readings. Directed and MC’d by Liam Gillespie, with cast including: Renee Huish, … Continue reading
These poems tell a powerful story. Continue reading
Both the challenges and radiant moments of the relationship of mother and daughter are given enduring form Continue reading
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