Hay Festival Brings Excitement and Surprises to Kells in County Meath
Words By Geri Schear The international Hay Festival will be returning to Kells, in County Meath for a third year this June 25 to 28th. The first day…
Tag: Ireland
Irish Day Tours: History, Scenery, Lit & Laughs
By Antoinette Weil At Literary Traveler, we encourage our readers to travel. We specifically feature a varied selection of literary themed tours—for obvious reasons—that last…
Beyond Joyce: Exploring Literary Dublin
Marsh Library By Caitlin O’Hara As an Irish citizen with family in the southeast corner of the country, I have visited Ireland 12 times, and…
Apps for the Adventurous: Dublin Ireland’s “Storymap”
By Jessica Ellen Monk A common frustration experienced by tourists on city-breaks is the feeling of being: “on ‘the wrong side of the glass’ and…
James Joyce and the Golden Gate of Pula
By Sara Whitestone I stood in Portorata Square in Pula, Croatia, the late afternoon sun shining through the Arc of the Sergii. Today this Roman…
Homesick and Happy in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
By Sue Norton Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn operates, like so much of modern fiction, on planes of moral ambiguity and relativism. Few clearly correct options…
He Can’t Go On, He’ll Go On: The Legacy of Samuel Beckett
by Mallory Sweeney I found, that the best way to get to know the artist, is to stare at the piercing eyes and cavernous wrinkles…
Conjuring Yeats
by Wendy Hawkin If you are searching for signs of fairies, jet to Ireland, and follow the western trail of poet and mystic W.B. Yeats,…
James Joyce A Portrait of The Artist in Trieste
Trieste, Italy, is on the uneasy border where northern Italy flares out to touch Yugoslavia, with Austria hanging just above it like a storm cloud. It…