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Professor J. Otway-Ruthven (1909-1989)

A ‘Brief Life’ of Professor J. Otway-Ruthven. Continue reading →

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine orphans: the Bridget Effect

Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading →

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Bridget Hopkins c1833-1915: A Galway girl goes to Bathurst and Bourke

A brilliant multi-layered Irish orphan story. Continue reading →

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The Artist and the Irish Orphans

Hossein Valamanesh’s art, as exemplified by the Irish Famine Authors monument in Sydney, was grounded, deep, spiritual, often with an exquisite light poetic touch… Continue reading →

Ghosts of Irish Australia: Catherine Scullin

Caroline Chisholm had worked hard in Australia for the families of convicts to be reunited. No one knew we had been rejected from the list of travellers. Continue reading →

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Reflections on Evelyn Conlon’s Moving about the Place

A new collection of short stories, some set in Australia, by Evelyn Conlon Continue reading →

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Lockdown Blues

A Miscellany of Recommendations from a Sydney-Sider How are you coping with the latest lockdown? I confess to finding this one more difficult; my troubles are minor things really, such as waking during the night, feeling a bit down, not focussing on the book I’m reading, despairing about human weaknesses. Let me share a few … Continue reading →

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