What if there had been no Easter Rising? Continue reading
Tinteán – On Line Version
Our aim is to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.
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Sinn Fein – the early years 1905 – 1922
Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme
Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme In 2013 the Government established an ex-gratia redress scheme for the benefit of women who were admitted to and worked in one of 12 ‘Magdalen’ institutions. The Government has now decided to apply the scheme to women who worked in the laundries in those 12 institutions but who were resident … Continue reading
Mannix and Ireland in the 1920s
Mannix and De Valera had swapped places; De Valera in his early years wanted to be a bishop, Mannix now aspired to the role of statesman Continue reading
From Galway Workhouse Girls to Australian Pioneers.
Mary and Catherine Cunningham, along with the other Workhouse girls from Mountbellew, did not deserve to be forgotten.
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The woman who got me into Ned Kelly’s funeral
How much of Ned is in the coffin? Continue reading
An Irish Hard Border revisited
In many places, the border lines made little sense and did not reflect local economic and social geographies Continue reading
Walking the NI Border before the Good Friday Agreement
Insistent talk of hard and soft borders in the North revived this readers’s interest in Spike Milligan’s lampoon, Puckoon(Penguin, 1963), Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood: A Walk along the Irish Border(Vintage, 1987). Continue reading
A united Ireland must be planned for in the future
It is time the issue of the future of Northern Ireland to be squarely faced. Continue reading
Global Irish Broadcast Network
To create a dedicated global broadcast network that will, for the first time, connect, entertain, and inform the 70M Irish worldwide Continue reading
James Joyce’s knowledge of Obstetrics
The moral of this story is don’t trust a novelist masquerading as an an obstetrician. Continue reading
