It’s not every day one gets to go to the deconsecration of a church, and in fact, this was my first – St Dymphna’s at Boborowie. And who was St Dymphna? Continue reading
Filed under 19th Century Irish Settlement …
Good News from Irish Queensland
The Queensland Irish Association is back… St Pat’s Day, Brisbane….A Pioneer Family from the Darling Downs Continue reading
The Irish Exile
The Irish Exile and Freedom’s Advocate was a brief but potent manifestation in print in early colonial Australia of the fight for Irish freedom. Continue reading
When ‘Fenian’ meant ‘Terrorist’
A Book Review by Frank O’Shea Steve Harris. THE PRINCE AND THE ASSASSIN. Australia’s First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror. Melbourne Books, 2017. 326 pp. ISBN: 9781925556131 RRP: $32.95 If someone from a Muslim country were to shoot an Australian politician today, that person would almost certainly be called a terrorist. And just as … Continue reading
‘No Irish Need Apply’
In the nineteenth century, job advertisements that specified that Irish should not apply were frequent enough in United States and England for songs, plays and jokes to be made about them. Continue reading
Famine Memorial Hobart
To find a convict ancestor is no longer a matter of shame but can be cause for reflection and indeed celebration. Continue reading
Voices of strangers
Irish opens the door to an extraordinary world Continue reading
Paddy Gleeson and the Clare Valley
Many of these wine also have Irish roots.
Continue reading
An Enduring Legacy: the work of Nicholas O’Donnell
An unconventional autobiography, but a fine account of a community. Continue reading
Mountbellew Workhouse Project
The aim, once they have collated all the descendants, is to reconnect them with their ancestors in Ireland. Continue reading
