These oral histories detail the ordinary activist – those from working-class backgrounds who, in contrast to the revolutionary élite, rarely recorded their thoughts in letters, diaries or memoirs. Continue reading
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Mo sheanmháthair críonna – áthas, brón agus bród – My grandmother, happiness, sadness, and pride Marc Ó Conaill
I remember my own mother telling me about my grandmother’s uncle who also lived at the Marsh. It happened that TB took his children and wife. Day after day he would bury a child. He would come home from a funeral only for another to die. It’s not surprising that Nana wasn’t happy to talk about those times. Continue reading
Another Irish Hero for the Pantheon
It is a highly dramatic memorial which takes the form of a secular ‘stations of the cross’, with little way-points for remembering as persons those murdered. Continue reading
‘Ulysses’ in the dock
For those with a literary bent, with legal training, interested in censorship or with a James Joyce obsession, this book about the American trials in which Ulysses was alleged to be pornographic is an engaging and enlightening read. Continue reading
Killurin to Kalgoorlie: the making of Hugh Mahon
The Honourable Hugh Mahon is one of the most interesting personalities in the national legislature. There has been more stirring incident in his career than in a dozen ordinary men’s lives. Continue reading
Book Launch at MISS
Hugh Mahon has the dubious distinction of being the only member expelled from the federal parliament Continue reading
Henry Lawson’s Irish Characters
Lawson used Irish characters in his multicultural cast as a literary device, in the main a comic one Continue reading
An Extraordinary Family
let us look at a family that truly deserves the word ‘extraordinary’ Continue reading
Golden Boy of Australian Boxing.
Darcy’s body was embalmed and brought back to Australia to a hero’s reception from the Australian people Continue reading
Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion: Poems of Máire Mhac an tSaoi
This riveting documentary explores the life, work and sensual poetic imagination of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, one of Ireland’s greatest living poets. Continue reading
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