A report by Professor Elizabeth Malcolm on Fintan O’Toole’s Lecture University of Melbourne, Miegunyah Lecture, 11 March 2020 Farage and Parnell The well-known Irish journalist and writer, Fintan O’Toole, commenced his lecture at Melbourne University on 11 March by showing a photograph of the 1880s Irish nationalist leader, Charles Stewart Parnell. This picture, O’Toole informed … Continue reading
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A new Australian book on the Irish National Association, advance notice. Continue reading
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The seventh in Elizabeth Sharkey is my grandmother’s grandmother, through an all-female line. I like to imagine this line as a fine gold thread coming from my heart and connecting me from mother to mother, spanning the oceans and the centuries back to a bleak workhouse in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Ireland. … Continue reading
Magistrate Fiona Hayes drew comparisons between laws and court practices in Victoria and Ireland with regard to family violence. Continue reading
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A new book about a Cistercian monk who served in Broome. Continue reading
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