The Australian School of Celtic Learning will run two workshops in Melbourne. Continue reading
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Early Suffragist Honoured
An Irish ‘anarchist’ makes Suffragist history later in life – the case of Mary Lee. Continue reading
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
A Book Review by Steve Carey Colm Toibin: Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers oWilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Picador, 2018. RRP: $29.99 [price at Readings] ISBN: 9781760781149 Originating as the 2017 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, Tόibín’s little book is a meditation on three very different Dublin dads and their literary lads. At … Continue reading
Rethinking Identities
Reflections on Identity by Geraldine O’Reilly I’ve just returned from a trip ‘back home’. Like many immigrants I have more than one place I call ‘home’; in my heart ‘home’ is Melbourne, Northern England and Ireland. Ireland has its share of problems but is generally a happening place. Its people are enjoying liberties long denied; … Continue reading
Learning Irish in Canberra
Announcing Irish Classes Information session in Canberra in February Continue reading
Season’s Greetings
Go raibh gach sonas oraibh an Nollaig seo agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir! Wishing you a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Irish Australia – ‘Getting more Interesting’
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
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
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