Oceans of Consolation: cassette launched
Published in Features, Issue 2 (Summer 1995), News, Volume 3The letters of Irish emigrants in Australia (featured in the ‘sources’section of HI Winter 1994), steeped in local idiom and nuance, deserveto be heard as well as seen. A ninety-minute cassette, based on aseries of radio programmes produced by Cathal Póirtéir, has beenreleased in conjunction with David Fitzpatrick’s Oceans of Consolation:Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (Cork UniversityPress) [to be reviewed in the next issue of HI]. RTE actors readletters to and from six different counties, accompanied by DavySpillane’s music for didgeridoo and uilleann pipes. The cassette(£5.95) may be ordered through bookshops (ISBN 1-85908-075-2) orcollected from Dept. of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
'
