Come to the centenary re-enactment of the speech, by noted actor Rod Quantock. Continue reading
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Northern Ireland government collapse
An election will be held on March 2 in Northern Ireland for the Northern Ireland Assembly Continue reading
Sebastian Barry Wins Costa Award
Sebastian Barry has been awarded the 2016 Costa Award for fiction for his book Days Without End, reviewed in our December edition. The award is made in five categories: Novel, First Novel, Poetry, Biography and Children’s. The first prize is worth just over $AU10 000 and the five winners are in line for the overall … Continue reading
Impromptu music at the 2016 Famine commemoration at Williamstown
Ambassador Breandán took an inclusive and humanist approach, linking the sufferings of the victims of the Irish Famine with those of people displaced today. Continue reading
Beannachtaí an tSéasúir
Beannachtaí an tSéasúir Continue reading
22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference, Adelaide 2016
The aim of The Children’s Relief Fund was to relieve hardship, assist with building reconstruction, and to support breadwinners in prison.
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Award Winning Paper about Bakers Flat
the current work coming from South Australia is a bright new stage in Irish Studies’. Continue reading
Poetry
No one can threaten hunger with bullets. Continue reading
Is this a photograph of the young Ned Kelly?
The photograph was owned by Ellen Kelly, Ned’s mother and passed on to her family after her death in 1923. Continue reading
Giving Birth to a Nation
This is one of many 1916 stories that forms part of the exhibition, ‘The Rotunda – Birth of a Nation, Continue reading
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