Celebrating Irish and Irish-Australian women Continue reading
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A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
A Ghost of Home Rule at Charters Towers
Joe Devlin’s tour of country Queensland in 1906 followed hard on the heels of Redmond’s earlier lucrative one, advocating Home rule. Continue reading
Rarity in Australian publishing history
Colin Ryan, an Irish-language writer from Australia, makes his own of the language and gives it a unique Australian twist. Continue reading
Vale, Sister Veronica Brady
There was nothing like stern conservative opposition to get Veronica Brady moving …. Continue reading
Big Houses
‘The Irish Country House’ is an important addition to our knowledge and interpretation of the country houses in Ireland, their dynamics, how they worked in the past and the relevance they might have for the future. Continue reading
Ghosts
Early on there is lots of inconsequential banter, but once the real story-telling starts, the veneers maintained by the men are stripped away, revealing somewhat complex human beings Continue reading
Stories Told around the Fires of Time
one imagines that, as with all oral story-tellers, the verse tethers memory to the story’s emotional highs and lows. Continue reading
Anchor Books, an Irish-Australian Enterprise
Anchor Books, producing quality books, designed and printed in Australia, by less well-known historians. Continue reading
At a Crossroads: Archaeology engages with Myth
The textual lore this book on Archaeology draws on is not only saga and epic, but also place-lore, and interestingly, hagiography. Continue reading
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