Greetings, readers, and a very happy New Year. May 2024 and its ‘extra’ day be successful for you and your family. With the exception of the first article after this introduction, your editors are taking a rest from publishing new material this month, but we assure you that we will be back in February. We … Continue reading
By Frank O’Shea Any year that provides new books by Sebastian Barry, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor and Colm Tóibín has to have been a good one for readers. In the year just finished, we have met all of those with the exception of Tóibín whose book will be reviewed in these pages in the next … Continue reading
by Dymphna Lonergan The Lillipilly berries are falling on my new SUV’, said the next-door neighbour just after she opened the door. No ‘Hello’, or ‘How are you,’ or even ‘G’day’. But she was not in Ireland now. She was in Australia, South Australia. And she has been here for over forty years. She followed … Continue reading
by Frances Devlin-Glass Those who have been following Bloomsday for a very long time may remember the palpable thrill of seeing Exiles for the first time in a humble moved reading at Gasworks Theatre (in South Melbourne) twenty years ago in 2003. I was in Japan and unhappily missed it. The audience reported a frisson resembling electricity and surprise … Continue reading
By Trevor McClaughlin This entry was posted on April 10, 2023 by Trevor McClaughlin, in Australian-Irish history, Belfast Girls, Irish Australian History, News and tagged ‘a working man’s paradise’?, Albert Cyril Ashton, C.G.Wade, Charles Emanuel Cohen, Crime, Earl Grey ship, Julian Windeyer, Maitland Circuit Court, Mary McConell, R. v Tudor, Richard O’Connor, Thomas Ashton, William Knox Child. Bookmark the permalink. (Edit) This is a story about one of the great-grandchildren of the ‘Earl Grey Irish Famine orphans’. … Continue reading
By Jeff Kildea, first published in John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. We thank this site for permission to republish. More than three years after Boris Johnson got Brexit done with his ‘excellent’ and ‘oven-ready’ deal, his second successor Rishi Sunak may have actually baked it, but only after changing the recipe from cake to fudge. But is … Continue reading
A Family History Feature by Mary Barthelemy This entry was posted on April 10, 2023 by Tintean Editorial Team/fdg, in News and tagged An Abbey Theatre poster by Grace Gifford, Civil War, Easter rising, Grace Gifford Plunkett, Holy Pictures, Irish culture, Irish history, Joseph Plunkett, Kilmainham Gaol murals, Poverty in Ireland in the nascent Free State, The Sydey-based Amour Brothers on tour in Ireland. Bookmark the permalink. (Edit) In my family archival … Continue reading
Brigidfest 24 in Melbourne Please don’t delay booking for Brigidfest, the hottest ticket in the Irish-Australian calendar (seats have sold out for some years). The good news is that we’re back at Batman’s Hill on Collins, our generous hosts at the western end of Collins, right opposite Southern Cross (and very handy for our regional … Continue reading
By Mae Leonard I was sick that day. Sick of New York. I’d had more than enough of the City That Never Sleeps. But I was really sick in Radio City Music Hall and all its finery was lost on me. My eyes wouldn’t focus properly and my ears were buzzing. All I could see … Continue reading
Irish History Professors in Irish Universities: Brief Lives Series I’m hoping this short series on Irish History Professors will make their achievement more widely known among Australian readers. I’m often disconcerted by how few of my friends and colleagues realize just how talented, professional, diverse and inclusive, Irish historians are. Lately I’ve taken delight in … Continue reading
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