VICTORIA’S Regional Irish associations, Cultural Groups, Festival Committees, Radio Stations, Theatre Groups, Language Groups, Dance Groups ETC – from Melbourne, and all around Victoria (including South West Victoria, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Sunraysia, and Gippsland) , as well as VICTORIAN RECIPROCAL CLUBS and CELTIC CLUB MEMBERS (Other City and Country members) are warmly invited to attend and support this ‘Get … Continue reading
Irish plays in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Continue reading
Breaking News…..Val Noone to receive Honorary Doctorate for his work in Irish Studies Continue reading
This 3 day seminar aspires to bring together dedicated and enthusiastic Joyceans from New Zealand and Australia to share their ‘worlds’ with one another, and with distinguished speakers Professor Vicki Mahaffey (University of Illinois) and Dr Tony Thwaites (University of Queensland). For more information, click here. All are welcome to the associated public lectures: “Practicing Joyce”, … Continue reading
The story is told by each of the characters in turn: each perspective is distinctive and fertile ground for ironic musings on Kirsty’s brittle quest for celebrity. Continue reading
Descendents of Quakers in Dublin meet over dinner in Melbourne…. Continue reading
Davis traces O’Brien’s extensive travels over a 20 year period, both before and after O’Brien’s sojourn in Tasmania as a political prisoner. Continue reading
If Dickens had been free of the restraints of respectability, and able to acknowledge honestly and frankly his own mistress, and his fascination with the underclass of prostitutes in London, this is the kind of book he might have written. Continue reading
Joyce’s life and work handled with irreverence and erudition… Continue reading
In 1849 William Smith O’Brien’s interest in foreign travel was boosted on his transportation for High Treason to Van Diemen’s Land, and despite all the problems and irritations of foreign travel in the nineteenth century, O’Brien never gave up foreign travel, and assiduously recorded his experiences Continue reading
