when everyone is poor, cooperation tends to be more common than conflict. Continue reading
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‘Brooklyn’ – Crowley’s Reworking of Tóibín’s Novel
‘Brooklyn’ is a gentle film which takes you on an anguishing journey through the everyday. Eilis loves the Irish life and culture she left, and learns to love the one she takes on, and faces very tough choices. Continue reading
Clann MacKenna International Gathering
A two-day International Clann Gathering will be held in the heart of “McKenna Country” – Emyvale, the Barony of Truagh and Monaghan Town to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising Continue reading
Review of Famine Rock Commemoration
the main emphasis of his address was to the impressive histories of all the Irish diaspora around the world, Continue reading
Irish Ambassador at Famine Rock Commemoration 2015
His Excellency, the Irish Ambassador to Australia, the Honourable Noel White, will be the guest speaker at this year’s event. Continue reading
A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
Home thoughts from abroad
Each visit home is another stage in the grieving process Continue reading
Irish Films in BBC First British Festival Australia
Never has Ireland looked so colourful and sunny as it has in this film. Continue reading
Stories Told around the Fires of Time
one imagines that, as with all oral story-tellers, the verse tethers memory to the story’s emotional highs and lows. Continue reading
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