by Mae Leonard I knew there was something not quite right the minute I rounded the bend of the road after Birdhill and was moving towards Annacotty on the last mile home. I was at the outskirts of Limerick on the main Dublin Road where the terrain is familiar to me and I knew there was … Continue reading
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Bloody Sunday: 50 years on
It was a sunny afternoon when 10,000 – 15,000 people joined together to take part in the march. The march began in the housing estate of Creggan and then made its way down the Bogside, which is the largely Catholic area just outside of Derry’s Old City walls. Continue reading
Delia Murphy ‘Ballad Queen’ 1902-1971
Everywhere Delia Murphy went she collected – from the servants at home, from the travellers in the lane, from fishermen, from the blacksmith. Continue reading
Great Irish Famine Commemoration Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 30 August 2020 LiveStream
The artist Hossein Valamanesh always insisted the monument was not just about the Great Irish Famine but about all famine. For me, this is what makes it a great monument. Continue reading
The ‘Best Choir in the Anglosphere’
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
Telling War Stories through Postage Stamps
The An Post images tell the story of reconciliation: that both sides suffered as a consequence of war and also the 1916 rising. Continue reading
Melbourne – the world’s centre for Famine Commemoration in 2018
Remembering Famine Orphan Girls at Williamstown Continue reading
St Patrick Visitor Centre, Downpatrick
… a site for community engagement across the Catholic-Protestant divide. Continue reading
Ireland’s first diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of Australia
Mannix made the expected speech getting straight up the noses of loyal Australia by calling Kiernan the representative of the whole of Ireland. Continue reading
‘Warwick egg incident’ of 1917
How the ‘Warwick egg incident’ of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided. Continue reading
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