In a new play by Irish-Australian poet and playwright, Meg McNena, Pompey Elliott, inspires as husband, father, general, Anzac veteran, leader. Continue reading
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Feminists before First Wave
This book on Nano Nagle and her legacy casts a powerful gaze on the lives and culture of a body of nuns whose charism was particularly and importantly focused on girls Continue reading
Observing the Lilt of Life
Throughout, this inhabitant of islands (Majella Cullinane was born in Ireland, and lives in New Zealand) runs the sea through her lines … Continue reading
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series, 1st Semester, 2019
Tuesday 26th March Sharon Crozier de Rossa, University of Wollongong ‘A Sword of Light…or a Swashbuckling and Murderous Fraud? Contesting Memories of the Violent Revolutionary Irish Woman’.Tuesday 16th April Patrick Morgan “The Mannix Era” Thursday 16th May Sinead Burke Disability advocacy Monday June 3rd Peter Burke “True to Ireland, Eire’s conscientious objectors in New Zealand in World War … Continue reading
Barry V Kelly
Ned Kelly in Emerald. Continue reading
New Joyce Course
A new course focussing on the Ithaca chapter of Ulysses, Joyce’s own favourite. Continue reading
Celtic Arts Workshops at Kildara Centre
The Australian School of Celtic Learning will run two workshops in Melbourne. Continue reading
Early Suffragist Honoured
An Irish ‘anarchist’ makes Suffragist history later in life – the case of Mary Lee. Continue reading
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
A Book Review by Steve Carey Colm Toibin: Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers oWilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Picador, 2018. RRP: $29.99 [price at Readings] ISBN: 9781760781149 Originating as the 2017 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, Tόibín’s little book is a meditation on three very different Dublin dads and their literary lads. At … Continue reading
Rethinking Identities
Reflections on Identity by Geraldine O’Reilly I’ve just returned from a trip ‘back home’. Like many immigrants I have more than one place I call ‘home’; in my heart ‘home’ is Melbourne, Northern England and Ireland. Ireland has its share of problems but is generally a happening place. Its people are enjoying liberties long denied; … Continue reading
