Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
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Radio Days
The wireless in our house in Leitrim in 1941 sat on a high shelf, away from little hands, in the kitchen. It had two batteries, one dry and one wet. Continue reading
Bridget Watson: from Ireland to Lancashire to Hobart
On 18th October 1831 Bridget Watson arrived in Hobart on the Mary III with her three surviving children … Continue reading
Irish Women Migrants of the 1850s
Single women seeking work as domestic servants were faced with frequent ‘No Irish Need Apply’ advertisements in newspapers. Yet, most Irish women did find employment, and were successful immigrants. Continue reading
Pompey and his Family
A new play by Irish-born Meg McNena that will tear at your heart-strings. Continue reading
Romantic Ireland – not dead and gone.
Christopher Kock belongs to a small but select class – he was a proud Irish Tasmanian and literary. Continue reading
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde’s most scintillating play. Continue reading
Daniel Mannix’s Melbourne
A free seminar with speaker Patrick Morgan talking about his new book, The Mannix Era. Continue reading
A World War I play by Meg McNena
In a new play by Irish-Australian poet and playwright, Meg McNena, Pompey Elliott, inspires as husband, father, general, Anzac veteran, leader. Continue reading
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