The Australian School of Celtic Learning will run two workshops in Melbourne. Continue reading
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Where Our Name Came From
There is no hearth like your own hearth Continue reading
The Warwick Irish Before the Egg, or John McEniery’s Shillelagh
The Irish stamp on Warwick is inescapable: its heritage-listed, gothic-revival sandstone edifices, the Cloisters (formerly Our Lady of the Assumption Convent) and St Mary’s Catholic Church dominate the townscape. Continue reading
‘Built by the Irish People’: reflections on the 1798 memorial at Waverley and the Irish Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks
There are two significant memorials erected in Sydney in response to major events in Irish history: the 1798 Memorial at Waverley Cemetery built at the time of the centenary of the ’98 uprising, and the Australia Memorial to the Great Irish Famine unveiled in 1999. Continue reading
From the papers
Tim Winton reviewed in the Irish Independent According to Independent.ie, Tim Winton wrote his Booker-shortlisted novel Cloudstreet while living in the lodge house at Leap Castle in Co Offaly. In his latest book The Shepherd’s Hut Winton introduces us to an Irishman named Fintan MacGillis, a mixture of old-style hermit and modern-day defrocked priest, living … Continue reading
Support for Irish Nurses Down Under
Irish nurses at home and across the diaspora strike for better conditions in Ireland. Continue reading
Early Suffragist Honoured
An Irish ‘anarchist’ makes Suffragist history later in life – the case of Mary Lee. Continue reading
Tionól Gaeilge Griandóite / Sunburnt Irish Gathering
Sunburnt Irish Gathering Continue reading
There’s a new world out there
Book review by Frank O’Shea Sally Rooney. Normal People. faber & faber 2018. 266 pp ISBN: 978-0-571-34729-2 RRP: $29.99 This novel was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and won the 2019 Costa Novel Award. Although it has won wide praise from reviewers, it is not entirely clear what all the admiration is about. At times … Continue reading
Edward Eagar, Forger and Emancipist
A Feature by Mike Pinnock Edward Eagar was one of ten children born into a family of landed gentry on his parent’s estate of Gortdromakiery in the parish of Killarney, County Kerry in 1787. He benefitted from a privileged upbringing; he was, from an early age, privately tutored on the estate by his father before … Continue reading
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