Looking ahead, Mary Elizabeth Calwell’s memoir of her distinguished father Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973) will be a useful guide to what might be called a family view of the many controversies of his political and public life. Continue reading
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Can the Tide of History be turned back?
When he set up a series of properties between Melbourne and the Murray, he was more appeasing in his relationships with Aborigines, making an effort to learn the language, Continue reading
A City in Decline
Dublin was a deposed and distressed capital, a city in decline. Continue reading
Australian Première of Enda Walsh’s play, Penelope
Not specifically Irish in subject matter, but opulent and Irish in its linguistic richness…. Continue reading
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminars, up to end June
Melbourne Irish Studies seminars are free to attend. They feature local and visiting scholars. Continue reading
Penelope by Enda Walsh, 20 March – 13 April
Nature of Event: Theatre, Penelope, a play by Enda Walsh Where: Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre in conjunction with Theatreworks, and performing at Theatreworks, 14 Acland St, St Kilda, Melbourne. When: 20 March -13 April 2013 Cost: $20-39 More Information: Red Stitch Bookings
Recording and Creating Irish Musical Identities
A book about the recording of Irish music which raises questions about whether Irish traditional music emanates from a distinctive and stable Irish culture or the extent to which it assimilates new and ‘foreign’ influences…. Continue reading
Dr Fell, from the Director’s Chair
Bernard Farrell’s much-loved first play, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell, ushers Irish theatre into a new international arena, that of psychotherapy: who is ‘normal’ in this comedy thriller? Continue reading
Boots and Court Shoes: Camille O’Sullivan’s Lucrece
Camille O’Sullivan’s long-awaited theatrical and sung adaptation of the Rape of Lucrece opened last night at the Sumner Theatre in Melbourne…. Continue reading
Memorialising the Famine
The text of a talk given at the Famine Memorial in Williamstown on 18 November by Perry McIntyre.
This talk is in two parts. The first concerns memoralisation of the Famine, specifically the background to the building of Sydney Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney incorporated into the wall which offered protection for immigrant women, beginning with the first shipload of workhouse orphan women and, ironically, standing on the site of the original Barrack kitchens. The second part places these young Irish immigrants to Australia between 1848 and 1850 in the context of single female immigration and brings them into a 21st century context. Continue reading
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