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FREMANTLE CATALPA FESTIVAL
The festivities commenced with the excellent play Catalpa: Flight to Freedom on the evening of 23rdh March, performed to a sell-out crowd at the atmospheric Fremantle Prison. Continue reading
Literary Facades and Emotional Resonances: Groucho Encounters Joyce
Director Renee Palmer grasps the various interconnections, time present and time past, where creative worlds meet. Continue reading
Vale, Elizabeth Malcolm
Tinteán marks the passing of Professor Elizabeth Malcolm on 19 May 2026. Her contribution to Irish-Australian scholarship was immense. Continue reading
After the Shock of Brexit, Is Irish Reunification Possible?
To encourage a future of peace and prosperity for all of Ireland, O’Toole and McBride carve their way through vast swathes of the past, providing historical context and logical, fact-based arguments. Continue reading
A Singular Novel, defying genre.
John Banville’s ‘The Singularities’ promises something akin to a crime fiction, but continually frustrates that expectation of plot. Continue reading
Irish-Australian Women Writers: 2. Anna Maria Bunn (1808–89)
The novel is melodramatic in its tropes of obsessive love, rape, incest and suicide, but it is also satirical, as Australian critics noted.
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Behind the Lines
Joyce, Groucho Marx and the fraught sexual politics of women in the cut-throat Joyce industry. Continue reading
Patrick McGorry’s Day Job
Patrick McGorry pioneered radical treatments designed to detect the signs of psychosis at the earliest possible point, establishing community-based resources and case-based management in the community. Continue reading
What we are reading, listening to, at the moment
Conviction Politics I unexpectedly attended a fascinating presentation at the Celtic Club this month on the massive international Conviction Politics project. Its aim is to use recently digitised records of Tasmanian convicts to reframe Australian democratic politics. It emphasises the scale of the convict system, and focusses on the ordinary working men and women. It … Continue reading
