It is easy today to forget the extreme ways that nineteenth-century British society divided along sectarian lines. Continue reading
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The Influence of the Irish National School System on Australian Educational Policy
Waugh’s brief is not to debate the merits of the current Australian education system but to highlight the significant influence of the Irish National Schools system in colonial times in paving the way for the provision of public education in Australia. Continue reading
The Irish in Australian Fiction
The Irish character in Australian literature is often introduced by a piece of dialogue that confirms the character’s origins. Continue reading
A Vision of a Community of Scholars based on Openness
It was a stroke of genius to commission three women to write the centenary history of Melbourne’s Newman College. Continue reading
Where’s the Atlas?
You won’t have any trouble getting into the swing of things, because the killings and mayhem start early…. Continue reading
Arguing for a living
Essays on modern Irish life by an Irish controversialist, John Waters Continue reading
A Story to Thrill and Delight
The Catalpa escape involved the rescue of six men serving life sentences. All were former British soldiers who had taken the Fenian oath. Continue reading
A Ground-breaking Study of South Australian Irish
When the evidence is looked at objectively, the vast majority of the colonial Irish, regardless of religious affiliation and county of origin, were respectable, law abiding people, neither rebels nor disaffected peasants. They arrived in Australia full of optimism and expected a better life. Continue reading
A First Book Gem
He came from nothing, but his success left him isolated and alone. Continue reading
The Multiple Identities of the Irish in Victoria
Irish-Australians call ourselves Irish Catholics, which is true culturally but our spiritual formation was not specifically Irish, but continental Catholicism. Continue reading
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