FINNEGANS WAKE FW75 PROGRAMME: Sunday May 4th, 11.32am: Official launch of ‘FW75′ by Robert Ballagh at the Phoenix Park Visitors Centre until May 24th Wednesday May 7th, 12.30pm: Vincent Deane on FW and the Phoenix Park at the Phoenix Park Visitors Centre Thursday May 8th, 6.30pm: Here Comes Everybody, the songs of FW … Continue reading A LIST OF EVENTS CELEBRATING THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF James Joyce’s FINNEGANS WAKE
Month: April 2014
‘I Cant Feel Anything’
NYMPHOMANIAC I [LARS VON TRIER](2014) I have always considered Lars Von Triers movies excessively apocalyptic in the most black humour sense imaginable. Its like as though he premises every story with a worst case scenario and pushes it to the limit to see what might happen. He does movies about the end of all life … Continue reading ‘I Cant Feel Anything’
Walking the Driving Range
A walk on a Perfect Day A couple of days ago I went to deliver a letter and got struck by a car. I was more or less unhurt, save for a bruised shoulder and a leg that still remains a tad stiff. It will be a few days before I can go back to … Continue reading Walking the Driving Range
All Along the Watchtower
Battlestar Galactica as Theology The excellent Battle star Galactica, which I loved watching, does have a heavy dose of theism running through it, which makes it even more interesting to watch because it touches on subjects other more conventional series rarely dare to go near. Not only that but it holds the view that those … Continue reading All Along the Watchtower
Haveth Childers Everywhere
FINNEGANS WAKE AS UNIVERSAL BOOK Here Comes Everybody[2] Since I have been writing – or should I say rewriting – most writing is a form of rewriting – and trying to shape – for a lecture on Joyce’s Wake on the 22 MAY in the Crypt of Christ Church Cathedral at 1 Pm, I … Continue reading Haveth Childers Everywhere