Her story is one, initially, of normal native Irish family life, then blighted by the Famine, the workhouse, and being sent to Australia, where her marriage, children, and oversall loss apparently sent her into a downward spiral and a tragic death. Continue reading
Liz McKenzie was an (understated) stalwart of Irish Australia. Continue reading
When I heard the cry ‘where’s Paddy gone?’, it started me thinking about my own childhood in South Purrumbete Continue reading
Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face is an ambitious, no-holds- barred, literary novel that tackles difficult and confronting social and personal issues Continue reading
In terms of soft power and international influence the Irish really do punch above our weight…. Continue reading
Circe is an episode written as a playscript, even if a playscript gone troppo.Hallucination is its own reality. Continue reading
The wicked history of ‘Monto’ spreads itself accommodatingly from the 1860s up to the 1950s. ‘Monto’ was, at one time, so it is claimed, to be the largest redlight district in Europe. It is estimated that there were at times up to 1,600 prostitutes working there. Continue reading
The sheer distance between Ireland and Australia and the cost of the 12,000 mile passage for example meant that Australia was spared the ‘hundreds and thousands of refugees…ragged, starving and diseased, that were cast up on the shores of Great Britain and North America.’ Continue reading
An invigorating history and historiography of feminist activism in Ireland in second wave. Continue reading
A rich plum pudding of a novel crammed with characters from the Joyce biographies and the novels, allusions and bits of text. Continue reading
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