According to Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, the name Sheila derives from Cecily, ‘the English form of the Latin name of the…virgin martyr St Cecilia…The Anglo-Normans brought the name to Ireland and in time it became in the Irish language Síle.. Continue reading
From Limerick and Wicklow, now with a street named after a member of the family. Continue reading
A summary of Irish role in history and literature of Australia, written prior to more recent research and publications in the area. 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
Mary Ann McMaster came to Australia under the Earl Grey Scheme. Continue reading
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
The Irish Exile and Freedom’s Advocate was a brief but potent manifestation in print in early colonial Australia of the fight for Irish freedom. Continue reading
The Surprise, moored at the Cove of Cork, and the Essex, at Kingstown in Dublin Bay (now Dun Laoghaire), were derelict ships which operated as holding prisons for convicts from 1823 until 1837. Continue reading
The photograph was owned by Ellen Kelly, Ned’s mother and passed on to her family after her death in 1923. Continue reading
