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EZRA POUND AND DESMOND O’ GRADY Much has been written by eminent critics on Ezra Pound’s relationship with William Butler Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. We have, amongst other sources, an account by James Longbeach of Pound remembering the three winters (1913-1916) he spent living with William Butler Yeats at Stone Cottage near the […]
Remembering the Start of “The Troubles” 50th Anniversary Civil Rights March – Derry – 5th October 1968 It was just a couple of years after the fiftieth-anniversary of the 1916 Rising and I was a pupil at CBS, Hassett’s Cross. The Christian Brothers celebrated that event and I remember winning a bronze plaque of Pádraig […]
€5m Fund Announced to Support Reopening of Arts, Music and Entertainment Businesses The Commercial Entertainment Capital Grant Scheme (CECGS) offers grants of €25k to organisations and companies reopening for staff, classes and audiences. A new funding scheme to support businesses working in the arts and entertainment sector has just been announced by the Department of […]
Taxi for Elvis After my daughter’s graduation ceremony a few years ago in University College Cork I was invited to have refreshments in the Aula Maxima. That ‘Great Hall’ is a capacious and impressive room with gilt-framed portraits of past presidents of the college adorning its wood-panelled, high walls. It was the first time I […]
How a bar in Greenwich Village, NYC played two important parts in the creation of Frank McCourt’s beloved novel. IrishCentral Staff @IrishCentral Sep 30, 2021 The tale of how the Lion’s Head bar along with three women Mary Breasted, Molly Friedrich, and Ellen McCourt led to the publication of “Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir”, published […]
The unconsidered human impulse is to wrap grief and pain in pious formulas, in slack received wisdom, in platitudes and worn-out phrases. Pain always threatens to become unbearable, and indeed it often is unbearable to anyone locked in the prison of the self. We have songs and stories, poems, dance, painting and theatre to lift […]
