The Hell Fire Club, Dublin’s Dance with the Devil, by Maurice Curtis (The Old Dublin Press, €20.00 hb) Sléithe Séadchomartha Bhaile Átha Cliath, Sharon Greene & Noel Jackman, designed by Sara Nyland, An Siopa Leabah, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 VH98; free of charge (but packing and postage extra) When I was a…
I have felt for a long time that the Church needs to get its act together on same-sex attraction. There have been too many own goals, too many myths, too many misunderstandings. I’d suggest what is needed is clear, orthodox and challenging teaching expressed and effected in the most modern, empathic, compassionate and pastoral way…
Araby House: James Joyce and all the neighbours on North Richmond Street, Dublin 1820-1998, by Michael Quinn (The James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, €15.00) The month of June has in recent decades become dedicated to Mr James Joyce. But there are odd overlooked aspects of Joycean Dublin. Many Joycean writers…
June brings with it a number of special musical events not least the ‘Pipewroks International Organ and Choral Festival’ and the ‘Dun Laoghaire summer Sunday evening organ recitals’ in St Michael’s Church. The former opened its doors on June 19 afternoon with a master class in Milltown’s St Philip’s Church directed by Geoffrey Webber, a…
The circumstances of the recovery in Dublin of a lost painting by Michelangelo Caravaggio on the walls of the dining room of the Jesuit residence in Leeson Street, a picture which is now hung with pride in the National Gallery on Merrion Square for all to see, has given the painter a special appeal to…
Tales from the Tower: A Personal History of the James Joyce Tower & Museum by its Curators by Vivien Igoe & Robert Nicholson, edited by Breandán Ó Broin, introduction by Vincent Bowne (Martello Publishing, €15.95 / £14.99) This little book is produced by the Friends of the Joyce Tower Society and co-funded by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown…
Mam an’ Me: Living a Life Time in a Day by Kieran J. Coote, with a foreword by Dr Marie Murray and an afterword by Áine Lawlor (Red Stripe Press, €12.99 / £11.00) The very striking cover on this book is a piece of art by Steve O’Neill, evocative of what happens with the onset and…
The Irish Film Institute is commemorating Bloomsday (June 16) this year with a showing of the film Adam and Paul, Lenny Abraham’s debut.
There is a phenomenon I’d call ‘the illusion of consultation’ – e.g. where a government or one of its offshoots consults the public on a topic, and then proceeds to do what they were going to do anyway. The current consultation on the new Primary school Curriculum was featured on Newstalk Breakfast Thursday, June 6.…
As I write this the Republic of India, the world’s largest democracy, is voting in a general election of a most complicated kind, with polling across the states in an extended series of ballots. This is the largest election in the world. By the time this article appears in print, unless something cataclysmic happens, and…
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