It was deeply emotional for me to be able to tell Judy the name of her father, something she had longed for all her life. I emailed a photograph, not being able to imagine the emotion of seeing a photograph of your father for the very first time. Continue reading
From Limerick and Wicklow, now with a street named after a member of the family. Continue reading
The Pope named her with Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton as four great Americans. Continue reading
Willie Carlin was an ex-British soldier who worked for Sinn Fein Continue reading
Life was not easy for Jane and Bridget, two of at least fifty famine orphan girls who were gaoled in NSW from the 1850s to 1900. Continue reading
He was the new face of Fine Gael, a man who would remove the word Blue Shirt from Irish politics. Then came the whistleblower … Continue reading
Mary Ann McMaster came to Australia under the Earl Grey Scheme. Continue reading
A great-great-grandson remembers an unapologetic rebel and determined reformer Continue reading
It is easy today to forget the extreme ways that nineteenth-century British society divided along sectarian lines. Continue reading
Essays on modern Irish life by an Irish controversialist, John Waters Continue reading
