If you thought the old folks were exaggerating about anti-Irish and anti-Catholic prejudice in nineteenth- and much of twentieth-century Anglo-Protestant Australia, our authors have put it back on centre stage. Continue reading
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Archbishop Goold and the Invention of Melbourne
Subject-wise the papers presented about Goold’s culture-building in Melbourne could hardly have been more diverse in subject and scope. Continue reading
A Prize Winning Novel that Divides its Critics
The most disconcerting aspect of Milkman is that it sits so easily in the definition of Northern Ireland as an inevitably enduring site of sectarianism. Continue reading
The Ormond Butlers
The Butlers, powerful aristocrats, occupied a major part in the history of Ireland for over 500 years. Continue reading
Brigidfest 2019: Brigid Need not Apply
Brigidfest 2019 – Irish women on the goldfields. Continue reading
Special Screening of a new film about the Great Famine
Nature of Event: A New Film about the Famine Wild Goose Lodge Trailer ‘Wild Goose Lodge’ is set in rural Ireland in 1816 and is based on a true story. It is a harrowing tale of love, betrayal, revenge and death – themes that are universal and will appeal to a global audience. Known as … Continue reading
Gillies does Beckett
A one-man meditation on memory, mortality, identity, ambition, desire, loss, waning powers and more, Krapp’s Last Tape comes to Melbourne in Laurence Strangio’s production precisely 60 years after its first performance at London’s Royal Court Continue reading
Melbourne – the world’s centre for Famine Commemoration in 2018
Remembering Famine Orphan Girls at Williamstown Continue reading
Brexit – A European Punch and Judy show.
As a border child from the counties of Tyrone and Derry, I have seen the hard border, that no one wants again. I remember the salmon smuggling, the customs officers on both sides Continue reading
The Cultural, Social and Spiritual Significance of Food in Irish Culture
A study of the role of food in the cultural life of Ireland, its austerity and changes over time. Continue reading
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