IRISH FAMINE ORPHAN GIRLS COMMEMORATION MELBOURNE
Sunday 19 November 2023 – 2pm-4pm
Famine Rock, Burgoyne Reserve, The Strand (near Stevedore Street), Williamstown
The annual commemoration event this year marks a dual anniversary; 175 years since the start of the Earl Grey Scheme (1848-1850) and the first ships to Australia, and 25 years since the Famine Rock memorial was erected at Williamstown (1998).
Guest speakers will share fascinating insights into this important moment in Irish-Australian history.
Dr Val Noone OAM, who was on the committee that erected the Famine Rock memorial standing stone, will speak to An Gorta Mór the Great Hunger, the Earl Grey Scheme and the history of the Famine Rock.
Cr Peter Hemphill of Hobsons Bay who has extensively researched Williamstown’s maritime history, give us a glimpse into the early days of Williamstown and what the orphan girls would have seen as their ships anchored in Hobson’s Bay.
Our Special Presentation will feature orphan girl Ellen Boyle who came to Port Phillip on the Lady Kennaway in 1848. Ellen’s descendant Jennifer Jones will present Ellen’s story, ‘Is mise Ellen Boyle’
The Irish Embassy representative will be Mr Daniel Lowe, Deputy Head of Mission.
Joining our other guest speakers will also be Cr Tony Briffa, Mayor of Hobson’s Bay [she/her].
There will be live music and the moving Laying of Flowers tribute.
Join the commemoration of all the young orphan girls who made the brave journey to a new life and new land across the world.
PLEASE NOTE:
Siobhan Walsh presented the Irish program on 3ZZZ last week (Sunday 29/10, 6pm-7pm) and it is available for you to listen. Joining her in the studio was Dr Val Noone OAM to speak to the Great Hunger, Earl Grey Scheme and Famine Rock (17th anniversary and 25thanniversary respectively this year). The show also features an interview with Jennifer Jones, a descendant of Ellen Boyle (Lady Kennaway).
Eureka Dinner with Bernard Collaery
2023 Eureka Australia Annual Eureka Democracy Award Dinner
Venue: Amora Hotel 649 Bridge Road, Richmond
Saturday 25 November 2023
6.30 pm for 7.00 pm
The Dinner Commemorates and Celebrates the 169th Anniversary of the 1854 Eureka
Events with the presentation of the Eureka Democracy Award. The 2023 Eureka Democracy
Award will be presented during the evening to Hugh de Kretser, the Chief Executive of the
Yoorrook Justice Commission & former Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Centre.
The Guest Speaker is Bernard Collaery, ACT politician and Attorney General, and First Secretary in the Australian Embassy in France. He is a highly respected lawyer always prepared to take on cases where the defendant was not getting a fair go. He helped Timor Leste establish democracy after the Indonesians left the country in a state of abject poverty. In June 2018, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions charged Bernard under the National Security Information (NSI) Act with disclosing protected intelligence information. In July 2022, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus waived all charges against Bernard Collaery. Until this happened he had endured 59 Court appearances held in secret, and faced the potential of a long prison sentence. This was extremely stressful – for 4 years he was unable to practice law. And his ordeal calls into question the accountability of unscrupulous people in power, and how our intelligence service can hide the truth in the guise of “protecting national security”.
TICKETS: $85 each, Tables of 10 – $850
Bookings essential – Contact the Secretary Peter Gavin 0417 135 373 or email: committee@eurekaaustralia.org.au
Payment by cheque/ mail Eureka Australia, 6 Gibbons Street, Sunbury 3429
Payment via EFT to BSB 704191 account 90789 (please put your name as the reference in the eft transaction)
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on Zoom
| Prof. Anna Johnston, University of Queensland “Songs of an Exile”: Sentiment and Violence in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s Irish and Australian Elegies, 1838-1863 21st November 6.30pm Melbourne time via Zoom 7.30am Dublin Time This paper focuses on the Irish and Australian poetry of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796-1880), who emigrated to New South Wales in 1838 from Coleraine. Dunlop’s best known (and highly controversial) poem, “The Aboriginal Mother”, was written in response to the 1838 Myall Creek Massacre, one of the only massacres of First Nations people by settlers that were prosecuted in the colonial Australian courts. More conventionally, Dunlop’s sentimental elegies mourned Anglo-Irish family members and members of colonial society. Connecting Dunlop’s literary and family history back to Northern Ireland reveals how she used a sentimental poetic discourse, popular with women publishing in new periodicals and literary albums, to grapple with “the uncanny persistence of violence in a globalized liberal society” (Hensley, Forms of Empire, 1). The bloody history of revolution and its suppression in Ireland remained potent metaphors through Dunlop’s writing career. She joins a cadre of poets who imagined liberal forms of colonialism, while also finding themselves deeply implicated in its contradictions and complicities.This online seminar will be held via zoom The zoom room will be open from 6.20 to allow everyone to get the technology sorted. Please put your microphone on mute for the duration of the talk. We will be taking questions via the chat function so you can type in your question anytime and the facilitator will ask the speaker the questions at the end of the talk.We will also be recording the talk and all going well will be posting it to the ISAANZ website. If you are new to zoom, click on the link below. If you are prompted to enter the password, it is also below. You may be prompted to download the zoom app or to proceed to the website to view. Either will work. Join Zoom Meeting https://victoriauniversity.zoom.us/j/81891163618?pwd=N05Xd3BFT1d5N0xHbGFSS2IwTnNOQT09Meeting ID: 818 9116 3618 Passcode: 026129MISS co-convenors: Philip Bull (La Trobe University) Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University) Dianne Hall (Victoria University) Ronan McDonald, (University of Melbourne)Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne) |
| Our website is https://isaanz.org/irish-studies-association-of-australia-and-new-zealand/events/miss-seminars/ |
SCOIL SAMHRAIDH AUSTRALIA DAY WEEKEND JANUARY 26-28, 2024
Canberra Scoil Samhraidh (Irish language summer school) 26-28 January 2024 – the Australia Day long weekend. A non-residential school organised by the Canberra Irish Language Association (CILA) at the Canberra Irish Club. Learn or improve your chuid Gaeilge. More details later. Teachers are from Ireland and Australia. Places limited. Enquiries or expressions of interest to: cila.enquiries@gmail.com
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