Recently I was asked by an MA research student to give some background about Irish Writers Online. A most gratifying request, of course, and so I set about looking up its history and stats. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in 2009, visitors from 170 countries had made use of it. I knew it [...]
Photo owned by Dan Strange (cc) Yeats’ writings are now in the public domain, it now being seventy years from the end of the year of his death year of 1939. Damien Mulley, whose blog on the subject alerted me, has some interesting suggestions about how they might be used in the digital age. Speaking [...]
I’ve never been to Alliouagana, but it has a special place in my heart, and indeed, in Irish history. Alliouagana is the native name for the island of Montserrat which was originally inhabited by Tainos (Arawaks) moving north from South America along the eastern chain of Caribbean islands, and subsequently occupied by the Kaliganu people [...]
click to enlarge James Joyce reading from Anna Livia Plurabelle FW. “Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Is that the Poolebeg flasher?” [update: see also James Joyce at Ubuweb Sound] James Joyce. Photo by C. Ruf, Zurich, ca. 1918 * Source: Cornell Joyce Collection This image was included in a printed subscription order form for Ulysses, [...]