Given that so much of mainstream Australian history continues to ignore the Irish or even, on occasion, to disparage them, a new general history of the Irish in Australia is overdue. Continue reading
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Killurin to Kalgoorlie: the making of Hugh Mahon
The Honourable Hugh Mahon is one of the most interesting personalities in the national legislature. There has been more stirring incident in his career than in a dozen ordinary men’s lives. Continue reading
Henry Lawson’s Irish Characters
Lawson used Irish characters in his multicultural cast as a literary device, in the main a comic one Continue reading
An Extraordinary Family
let us look at a family that truly deserves the word ‘extraordinary’ Continue reading
Reading John Boyne
The book ties in to events and personalities of the time Continue reading
From Beginning to End
Beckett and MacGowran in Paris Continue reading
The Sadness Of Dr Mannix
for him nothing remotely matched these Irish events in importance. Continue reading
Irish Studies Rock Adelaide
The ISAANZ conference circuit is as healthy and vibrant as it is because it is open to those outside academia and enthusiastically followed by family historians, journalists, and those who take a pride in their Irish heritage. Continue reading
Legal implications of an Australian Plebiscite on Same Sex Marriage
Ireland held a successful constitutional referendum on this Same Sex Marriage in May 2015 because its Constitution was assumed to implicitly deny recognition to same sex marriage. Australia’s Constitution, on the other hand, leaves the issue to the Parliament to decide. Continue reading
Reunification – a collateral benefit of Brexit?
these are things that should be looked at in the context that they might happen at some time in the future. Continue reading
