Tag: Rita Ann Higgins

  • “The Women of 1916” by Rita Ann Higgins

    The Women of 1916   ‘the state recognises that by her life within the home’ article 41.2.1. The Irish Constitution   Years before the offending article was even conjured up by De Valera and the very Reverend John Charles McQuaid with the help of a pack of Jesuits – the plan was set in train…

  • A Celebration of Irish Women Poets on Bloomsday 2015

    PEARLS AT BLACKFRIARS   For his Winter’s Tale, Master Shakespeare calls for a covered stage with the scent of candle-grease and orange-peel heavy on the air.   There must be torches to give movement to shadows and life to the statue; and for Hermione’s face – tincture of pearl, crushed.   With this bowl of…

  • “The Mission” by Rita Ann Higgins

    The Mission I think of the last time we met on the prom in Galway. A sunny day in May you looked cool in those shades. You looked taller somehow. We talked for ages. You told me about plans for your mother’s sixtieth. I felt lucky to have such a nephew. Shades or no shades.…