The strange phenomenon that was Joseph Mary Plunkett – invalid, bohemian, fey man of letters, theatrical spy, bookish military strategist, unrequited lover, very public lover, and ultimately executed revolutionary. Continue reading
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Irish History Circle on 24 April at 7.30pm
Irish History Circle – The Secret History of Dublin’s Streets and Cathal Brugha Continue reading
Sunlight & Shadow – A Book Launch, Talk and Concert
This delightfully eclectic book brings together in one fascinating volume bits of knowledge, history, insights and colour from a huge – and wide variety of original sources Continue reading
Sisters of the Revolutionaries: The Story of Margaret and Mary Brigid Pearse.
The Story of Margaret and Mary Brigid Pearse Continue reading
Remembering John MacBride
In 1916, Irish people had come to dread the knock on the door. Continue reading
22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference, Adelaide 2016
The aim of The Children’s Relief Fund was to relieve hardship, assist with building reconstruction, and to support breadwinners in prison.
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‘IRELAND WILL BE FREE’
This remarkable film of St Patrick’s Day 1920 in Melbourne is an impassioned call for Ireland’s independence Continue reading
‘Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel’
Lindie Naughton’s compelling new book sheds fresh light on all facets of Markievicz’s life Continue reading
Convicted on a Comma: The Trial of Roger Casement
A man who strode the world stage as a courageous reforming anti-colonialist. Continue reading
The Quixotic Generation of 1916
What is most striking to me about the pre-Rising Irish middle-class is its freewheeling bohemian character: romantic advanced nationalism provided many fora (meetings, dance-floors, remote country language camps, amateur and professional theatrical stages, communist communes) for debating and living secularism, feminism, suffragism, even vegetarianism and lesbianism. Continue reading
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