A fascinating new series of talks begins this evening, May 7, 2010, at Christine Clear’s The Living Room. What she calls ‘contemplative conversations’ have the collective title of “Taking Ownership: conversations exploring a radical sense of responsiblity in contemporary Ireland.” The inaugural talk is The Responsibility of the Individual, by Professor Ivor Browne These conversations [...]
IT ALL begins with words. Words that teem and toss about, they stream and eddy. They’re torrential and pressing and insistent. They are lovely to hear inside, they talk to you; they are a delight to hear coming in, hovering, banking, waiting to land – that tree, sitka but call it evergreen, the flowers “sweet [...]
The Tara Campaigns organised on the 24th of August 2008, a ‘Feis Teamhar’ : A ‘Turn at Tara’ to highlight the ongoing destruction of the Tara Complex by the Irish Government. The Feis was addressed by Pulitzer prize winner Paul Muldoon and Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney . The event was organised in the open air [...]
A weekend honouring Pearse Hutchinson kicked off last night with a a fine interview with Hutchinson by Vincent Woods on the Arts Show (December 13), RTÉ Radio 1 This evening it continues with Pearse Hutchinson: An 80th Birthday Sympo.sium 14-15 December 2007. in the Robert Emmet Theatre (2037), Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin, starting at [...]