By Tom Brace - Articles published in Three Monkeys Online
Michael Longley: Entwining Strands of Love, Nature, War & Death.
Michael Longley has been labelled a nature poet, a war poet, and a love poet. In truth his large body of work contains elements of all these, and more. The Belfast poet discusses the nature of poetry with Tom Brace, for Three Monkeys Online, as part of ou...
A Poet's Space - an interview with Brendan Kennelly
Lauded by Auden and Bono, Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most succesful, and popular, poets. Kennelly, born in Ballylongford Kerry, is the author of , amongst others, The Book of Judas, Cromwell, and Poetry My Arse. Brendan Kenn...
The Stupidity of Men - Women in the Plays of Seán O'Casey
Women had a profound effect on the life of Seán O'Casey. He was brought up by his mother, and educated at home by his schoolteacher sister. His plays, set against the turmoil of man-made conflict, contain a vision of pragmatic and realistic women, rare f...
Seán O’Casey - Portrait of the Artist as an Outsider
Seán O’Casey, for many was the 'slum dramatist', not only because his classic trilogy of plays, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman, and The Plough and the Stars were set in Dublin's working class slums, but because O'Casey hi...
Lovely Seaside Girls. James Joyce’s Musical Interludes
Tom Brace takes a historical look at some of the music, and culture, that influenced Dublin writer James Joyce when writing his masterpiece Ulysses....
Rain in August. Cyprus, the UN, and the death of Archbishop Makarios - a personal recollection.
As a young officer in the Irish Army, in 1972, Tom Brace found himself a few feet away from world leaders, as they searched for a solution on the divided Island. ...
New Writing in ThreeMonkeysOnline
ThreeMonkeysOnline supports new writers, offering them a platform for publication. Every month we publish poems/fiction from new writers. This month we showcase poems from Irish writer Tom Brace....
Reviews by Tom Brace published in 3Monkeys Online
Ireland and the Palestine Question 1948 – 2004 by Dr. Rory Miller
In a hitherto neglected area of study, Dr Rory Miller of King's College at the University of London, adresses the history of the relationship between Ireland and the Palestine Question....
