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In the colony, Irish lawyers would function like English lawyers. The playing field was levelled because even Englishmenhad to adjust, on the job, to frontier conditions. Continue reading
Australians, and Irish-Australians in particular, will continue to be enriched by the legacy of Susan Ryan, a daughter of St Brigid. Continue reading
Descended from County Clare people, Monica McInerney understands intergenerational trauma. Continue reading
‘Take back across the waves Australia’s message, / And say our hearts are big’. Henry Lawson. Continue reading
News Commentary by Liam Gillespie As Victoria tentatively looks forward, and dares to dream of a Covid-free Christmas, many other countries find themselves staring down the barrel of the same purgatory and uncertainty we have been enduring for the better part of a year. Ireland is one of those countries. The similarities between Victoria and Ireland during … Continue reading
Finally, I gently clasp the dragonfly’s wings
and release it at the backdoor to fly away.
Was it a lost soul of a relative
From long ago looking for our prayers? Continue reading
Book review by James King. EMMA DONOGHUE. The Pull of the Stars, 2020 256 pp. ISBN: 978 1 52904 6168 RRP: $32.99 Since the publication of this novel in July this year, at the height of our first wave of the Australian COVID-19 epidemic, there have been many reviews, mostly very flattering, including one written by Frank … Continue reading
The New York Times compared Towards Asmara to For Whom The Bell Tolls in its open support for an armed struggle – a big, debatable comparison. Continue reading
Discovery of another poet writing in Irish, to the great acclaim of her peers. Continue reading
Raphael Slepon, founder of FWEET, on annotating Finnegans Wake. Continue reading
