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January 2019 Poem of the Month
Our first Poem of the Month for 2019 comes from Michelle O’Sullivan’s 2015 collection The Flower and the Frozen Sea. Januaries 1 Broken daylight and the wind singing, the sun in threads can’t reach these stone- dense hills or the rain-fed lake. It’s a charmless fool’s gold. This settling and unsettling, cold taking to the […]
Theatre Reviews of the Year
Theatre Reviews of the Year Some end of year comments from theatre reviewers: ‘Two revivals at the Abbey were notable as serious pieces of theatre in the literary genre for which the theatre was founded. One was a compelling production of Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill. A journey into sordid nightmare, it was intensely directed […]
‘Christmas in Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon
Christmas in Kinsale After the fairy lights in seaside lounge and bar the night walk under a blustery Advent sky, sidereal frost systems money will never buy, one gull on a night wave, one polished star, crane light at the quayside, a dark harbour mouth. Wind chimes this morning through dispersing mist from the Church […]
Books of the Year 2018
Books of the Year for 2018 from various publications: Against the Clock by Derek Mahon ‘The poems in Derek Mahon’s Against the Clock have his signature elegance, irony and melancholy; they also display a new lightness, as though he has come to accept the world in terms that are rooted and visionary, open to suggestion and […]
December Poems of the Month: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill/Dennis O’Driscoll
December’s Poems of the Month come from Northern Lights, with poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. Tusa Is tusa, pé thú féin, an fíréan a thabharfadh cluas le héisteacht, b’fhéidir, do bhean inste scéil a thug na cosa léi, […]
Northern Lights Book Launch: 5 December
7.00pm Wednesday 5 December Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square E, Dublin 1 Book free tickets here The Gallery Press in association with Poetry Ireland presents the launch of Northern Lights: poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. In […]
Of Mouth Lunchtime Series: 7 December
Aifric Mac Aodha will take part in the OF MOUTH lunchtime reading series with Colette Ní Gallchóir at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast on 7 December. https://www.facebook.com/events/2352043634809932/
Two by Friel at Irish Repertory Theatre
‘Two By Friel’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre, New York The Irish Repertory Theatre presents ‘Two by Friel’ – a special evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of Brian Friel’s ‘Lovers: Winners‘ and the New York première of The Yalta Game. Runs November 7 – December 23, 2018 Book tickets here
The Dead, 1904: Irish Repertory Theatre NY
The Gallery Press publishes The Dead, 1904 by Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz (https://bit.ly/2QEc49r), an adaptation of James Joyce’s novella, The Dead, to coincide with its production by Dot Dot Productions, in association with the American Irish Historical Society, and the Irish Repertory Theater, New York. Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, this annually sold-out holiday […]
