Nature of Event: Public Lecture: ‘The Long Shadow of the Great Famine on Irish people’s Health at home and abroad’ by Prof. Cecily Kelliher, Chair of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, University College Dublin. When: Wednesday 18 March at 6.30pm Where: Copland (Basement) Theatre, 98 Pelham St., Carlton, Vic. 3053. Cost: Free but it is essential to … Continue reading
Posted in March 2015 …
Death or Liberty
In December 1796, the Britannia set sail from Cork under Captain Thomas Dennot with Surgeon Augustus Beyer on what would be one of the worst voyages in the history of transportation. Continue reading
Brigidfest 2015: Women and girls in a war zone
The point was eloquently made: religion or politics were often not essential factors of many of these deaths Continue reading
‘Poems in Memory of my Mother’.
each loss
a truth to be mourned in prayer, then lived beyond. Continue reading
Aistriúcháin
Tugann leabhair ó chultúir eile léargas dúinn ar shaol daonna de chineál eile Continue reading
The Travelling Man/’Irish Opera’ to feature in a concert.
this extract will most likely be a world premiere of this operatic scene. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival
Irish food, drink and music will flow, turning the Chauvel into a mini Irish pub for the occasion. Continue reading
‘Bendigo And District–The Irish Contribution’
Bendigo and district have a powerful and dynamic history Continue reading
Talking History – Irish-Australian history series
Irish-Australian history is deep and rich Continue reading
Riverrun: Melodio[sities] in pure effusion
Riverrun, the theatrical tour de force based on the final section of Finnegans Wake, devised and performed by Olwen Fouéré, in making the choice to dramatise the Liffey rather than the characters offers an unexpected but very clarifying innovation… Continue reading