Irish Stories

Beckett at the end of the world. Or: waiting for Laethanta Sona

I wrote before about Beckett in relation to Tolkien; even to Pokemons. It’s not my fault. It’s his merit. It’s Five days To Saint Patrick’s. The Saint Patrick’s day that won’t happen. Five days to the Pre – San Patrizio Livorno Festival that won’t happen. On Saint Patrick’s day I …

Beckett's Ireland / The Beckett Country: discovering the roots of a myth - Federico Platania, SPLF 2020

Colm Mac Con Iomaire is one of the Irish Guests of Honour of the San Patrizio Livorno Festival 2020. With Colm, Catherine Fitzgerald, pianist.

Basciville Guests of Honour SPLF 2020 #SPLF #SPLF2020 | ItalishMagazine

Peter Murphy, the author of "John the Revelator", is the first Guest of Honour of SPLF 2020

The San Patrizio Livorno Festival 2020 will have Dr. Lucia Galasso, Food Anthropologist, who will discuss the results of our SPLF Survey - a survey which explores the comparisons between Italian and Irish cultural identities regarding food.

Donegal: two ghosts It was a blue decaying building. Its guest rooms, its restaurant and its pub were dusty and long since abandoned. Outside its signs appeared faded and an enclosure prevented you from entering. “Could I have an Hop House, please?” “We don’t have it.” “Then a Smithwicks.” The …

Flaggy Shore - a poem by Liam O'Broin

Irish musicians: he prefers the harp to the violin By Monica Gazzetta Between the two, he prefers the harp. The violin was loved and lots of people stopped to listen to it. When he played it, he became an old man with short and thick white hair; even the beard …