Many of the residents of Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, believed that their town was named after a town in Ireland. Strictly speaking this is untrue though understandable…. Some people believed that this Dromana is named after one or the other of two towns named ‘Dromore’ in Northern Ireland – County Down or County Tyrone. This is also incorrect, though interesting. Continue reading
…the greatest challenge in the book is confronting the difference between the sniper fighting the enemy soldier, and indiscriminate bombing likely to target many innocent people. Continue reading
The story of Joseph Mary Plunkett is so dramatic, so full of high courage and drama and resolve, that it should have made the best kind of biography. Continue reading
A crowd-funding enterprise to put into permanent form David Monahan’s photographic study of post-Celtic-Tiger migrants. Continue reading
Nature of Event: The annual Bloomsday in Melbourne’s James Joyce festival occurs between 11-16 June and comprises four main events: a Play, Ulysses Prestissimo, directed by Wayne Pearn – a high-octane, vaudeville-inspired comedy, an original adaptation for theatre of Ulysses; a Seminar, Ulysses Lento, in which Dr. Steve Carey and Mr Philip Harvey will discuss the pleasures of … Continue reading
This year’s Irish selection process for Eurovision has been widely hailed as one of the more bizarre and memorable…. Continue reading
An Alternative Anzac event at the Celtic Club TODAY. Continue reading
The period from 1880 to 1907 appears to be the main foundation date for most of the churches named for St. Carthage in Australia ….. Continue reading
Credit has been slow in coming … for the members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the RIC. Continue reading
This book, by a new writer, comes heavily laden with credentials…. Continue reading
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