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
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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
Declaration of the Australian Republic
We the Australian people declare ourselves to be a self-governing republic, totally free of formal links to other countries in our governance arrangements… Continue reading
The Educational Philosophy of Patrick H Pearse
Pearse’s philosophy of education is informed by one simple idea: the necessity for a secure sense of identity. Continue reading
The Significance Of 1916 by Garret Fitzgerald
the final end of the Irish nation was at hand, unless they acted dramatically to call back the nation’s soul from the very shadow of death. Continue reading
Breathing up Collective Sound: The Lake School
A FEATURE by Roslyn Hames The Lake School of Celtic Music, Song and Dance is an annual camp held during the first week of January (2-7 Jan.) across tiny Koroit, a historical town of many Irish connections on the south-west coast of Victoria. The event offers a high level of tuition in the building blocks … Continue reading
Pure and Sublime Poetry: A conversation with visual artist Robert Amos
Sara Jewell, of Waywords and Meansigns, interviews a Canadian Visual Artist. Joyce aficionado Robert Amos has had a copy of Finnegans Wake since 1969. One of Victoria’s best known artists talks frankly to us about Finnegans Wake, decorating the entirety of the James Joyce Bistro in Victoria, British Columbia, and writing out (by hand) one of … Continue reading
‘Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky..’
Dublin was full of mourning, and on the faces one met there was a hard brightness of pain… 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
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