There is a rich history of activism in the Australian Labour movement by Irish-Australian women’. Continue reading
Posted in November 2015 …
Wanderings’: an exhibition of artwork and calligraphy by Lynne Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.’ Continue reading
Approximately in the Key of C by Tony Curtis
launch of two new titles from Arc Publications Continue reading
Eileen Grey – influential designer of the twentieth century.
one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. Continue reading
Celtic Club Activities for November
we can make it the best possible celebration of the 100th Anniversary of The 1916 Rising next year. Continue reading
‘Battlefield 1916 – The Laneways of History’
a tour of Dublin’s forgotten 1916 Battlefield.
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Irish Ambassador at Famine Rock Commemoration 2015
His Excellency, the Irish Ambassador to Australia, the Honourable Noel White, will be the guest speaker at this year’s event. Continue reading
A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
A Ghost of Home Rule at Charters Towers
Joe Devlin’s tour of country Queensland in 1906 followed hard on the heels of Redmond’s earlier lucrative one, advocating Home rule. Continue reading
Home thoughts from abroad
Each visit home is another stage in the grieving process Continue reading