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The Tinteán magazine is a publication of the Australian Irish Heritage Network.

Tinteán aims to build and explore the Australian Irish identity. The magazine welcomes material which explores the big themes of exile, diaspora and settlement. It also encourages the telling of the micro-stories that express narratives of individuals and families. The magazine is a continual study of the political and economic evolution of Ireland, and of the contribution which Irish-Australians have made to Australia. The intention is to explore and celebrate the playing out of the Irish heritage in Australia, past, present and future.

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Issue 18 contents

Regulars

  • Letters: Girt by sea
  • What's on
  • Editorial: A fond farewell
  • Irish Economic News
  • News: Urgent message from the Irish Embassy
  • Irish language: Corn na hÉireann/The Ireland Cup, Bearnaí Ó Doibhlin
  • Bolg an tSoláthair/ Odds & Ends: Val Noone
  • Miscellany: Maria Wallace and Mervyn Ennis, Joseph Murphy

Features

  • The Irish Presidential election, Mark Quinn
  • Making A Man, Noel King
  • Pestilence on the Portland, 1833, Anne McMahon
  • Irishness and the Kelly Outbreak, Glen Davis
  • Irish language Sources at the State Library of Victoria, Kevin Molloy
  • A Scribal family, Julia Kühn
  • Irish Monastic Scribes, Dianne Hall
  • Irish Horse Racing: an ancient tradition, Ann Elder
  • John Betjeman in Dublin during WWII, Frank O’Shea
  • The Cloyne Report – the aftermath, Genevieve Rogers
  • William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865), John Clancy
  • St Kilda: Death of a Communal Republic, Mervyn Ennis
  • ‘Not an Irishman but a Blasket Islander’, Mattie Lennon

Reviews

  • A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland, Gerry O’Hanlon, reviewed by Peter J Wilkinson
  • Edgar Turner at 90, John Mann (ed.), reviewed by Peter Kiernan
  • The Story Of Ireland, BBC NI and RTÉ, reviewed by Stuart Traill
  • Double Sentence: life after prison with Gerry Conlon and Paddy Joe Hill, Colm McNaughton, reviewed by Danny Rooney
  • Convicts at Sea, Anne McMahon, reviewed by Felicity Allen
  • Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Frank McGuinness, reviewed by Frances Devlin-Glass
  • Meeting Mona Lisa, Tommy Frank O’Connor, reviewed by Frances Devlin-Glass
  • The Truth in Mustard, Cill Aodain & Nowhere Else, Terry McDonagh, reviewed by Carol O’Connor
  • Folk, Tony Curtis, reviewed by Meg McNena