Fortunately, nobody did but it did put a stop to their play. A production of Hamlet by Second Age in Cork’s Everyman Theatre was halted when Conor Madden, playing the eponymous Dane, was wounded in the final duel. The last act of Hamlet culminates in a duel between Hamlet and Laertes, the latter using...
My very talented sister-in-law, Aifric MacAodha, launched her first poetry collection on Thursday 3rd June 2010. It has nothing to do with fencing épée but as I designed the book’s cover for her (see left) and it coincided with our fencing league it is getting a little mention. Aifric has been published in various...
Flame-haired Former Fencer Flattens First Minister Naomi Long Elected MP for East Belfast In the biggest upset of the general election in Northern Ireland, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has beaten the Democratic Unionist Party leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson to be elected as Member of Parliament for East Belfast....
To the Gaiety Theatre for what may well have been the last ever production by Opera Ireland, Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette. In the current economic unpleasantness there have been suggestions that the main opera companies in Ireland be amalgamated into a single national company. I love the opera, it has everything, music, drama, spectacle,...
Merry Christmas one and all, and all the best for 2010. In the meantime, here’s a short Christmas message from Ireland’s only Oscar contender this year: