‘Thought I’d come for one year but I’ve made life long friends’ Continue reading
Posted in December 2017 …
Revisiting Skellig
The blockbuster Star Wars, The Last of the Jedi, may not be the kind of movie that our readers fancy. Some of the action is set on Skellig Rock, featured in the October edition of Tintean. https://tintean.org.au/2017/10/06/a-day-on-skellig-rock/ You will find a poetic tribute to Skellig, released to coincide with the film, at https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/exclusive-stunning-360degree-video-of-skellig-michael-released-ahead-of-star-wars-36385775.html
Ireland’s first diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of Australia
Mannix made the expected speech getting straight up the noses of loyal Australia by calling Kiernan the representative of the whole of Ireland. Continue reading
Australia and Ireland in the bitter year of 1917
1917 was a bitter year – probably the most bitter in white Australia’s history – but also one of which Irish Australians can be proud. Continue reading
‘No Irish Need Apply’
In the nineteenth century, job advertisements that specified that Irish should not apply were frequent enough in United States and England for songs, plays and jokes to be made about them. Continue reading
Poems from Colin Ryan
Agus thagadh an áit sin
chugat aniar i mbrionglóid
i bhfad i ndiaidh a tréigthe: Continue reading
Synge: Elective Vagrant, and Writer
J.M.Synge and Travel Writing will send its readers back to the work being discussed with renewed interest. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
It is difficult to write about it – or, indeed, read about it – without anger, Continue reading
A language learner’s traveller’s tale
The course itself was as much culture and music as language. Continue reading
‘Warwick egg incident’ of 1917
How the ‘Warwick egg incident’ of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided. Continue reading
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