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
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Magistrate Fiona Hayes’ talk for Brigidfest 2020, ‘Brigid, the Law and Responding to Women’s Rights in Today’s World’
Magistrate Fiona Hayes drew comparisons between laws and court practices in Victoria and Ireland with regard to family violence. Continue reading
A Runaway Juggler, a Missing Boy and a Mother and Cleric in Crisis
A new musical play by Felix Meagher Continue reading
Invitation to a book launch
A new book about a Cistercian monk who served in Broome. Continue reading
Song as a Sacred Pathway to Nature
Nature of Event: Jacqui Rutten, following her recent research and composition residency in County Armagh at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, will give a talk at the Belgrave Library about her experience in composing and singing classical, Celtic and improvised vocal music and will explore how song connects with nature. When: Saturday 21 March at 11am. Where: … Continue reading
Vale, Peter Kiernan (1923-2019)
Peter Kiernan had a long association with Irish affairs in Melbourne – the Connolly Association program on Radio 3CR, the Famine Rock commemoration at Williamstown, and with both Táin and Tinteán magazines… Continue reading
The Irish Australian Literature Symposium (22 November 2019)
The Irish-Australian Literature Symposium of 2019 may be remembered in years to come as the event that marked the formal initiation of ‘a distinctive new field of research’. Continue reading
Resurrecting our Feminist Dead
This novel is a paeon of love to Sydney and to Michael Davitt and the Ladies Land League. Continue reading
Melbourne Celtic Festival
St Patrick’s Day at the Seafarer’s Mission. Continue reading
Invitation to Irish Emigrants
Irish emigrants are invited to participate in a study being carried out by Maria Touza, Emilia Grycuk and David Tracey, as part of their Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The study aims to investigate Migratory Grief among migrants living abroad who originate from either Poland, Venezuela … Continue reading
