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Dudley, as he was always called, was a formidable scholar, a towering and legendary figure. ..He combined flamboyance and eccentricity with scholarship and imagination. Thirty-five years after his death people still often talk about him. He was unique. Continue reading
As someone who for more than 25 years has researched and written about the story of Sr Liguori (aka Bridget Partridge), I was not aware there was a mystery to be solved. Continue reading
When the war was declared, at the age of 44, she offered her services to the British government. She also changed her middle name from the Irish, Alanna, to the more Norman/English Eleanor. She would be known as Alice Eleanor throughout her war years and revert to Alanna on her return to Australia. Continue reading
Tea drinking may be associated with English culture, but it is still very much part of Irish culture too. Continue reading
James Joyce’s forgotten masterpiece Exiles explores the subject of ethical free love as well as new gender scripts which are more legible now than they were a century ago. Continue reading
Father Bob Maguire was less a larrikin than a rebel who believed in helping the poor and calling out injustice…. Continue reading
We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Maolíosa Stafford. Tomás de Bhaldraithe has sent us this account of Maelíosa’s many achievements followed by a translation: Continue reading
The author, Simon Smith, is a filmmaker who has recorded stories from around the world, and that background is seen in the writing as he fills in little details and concentrates on the lives, likes and troubles of the main characters. Continue reading
Enjoy Irish or Irish-Australian events around the nation. Continue reading
James Francis Michael Lydon (1928‒2013) ‒ always ‘Jim’ to his friends ‒ was the most influential historian of later medieval Ireland of his time…His achievement was to revive the study of a neglected stretch of the Irish past both through his own writings and through the fascination and lasting commitment he inspired in those he taught. Continue reading
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