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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Home thoughts from abroad
Each visit home is another stage in the grieving process Continue reading
Saving a famous Irish Australian family
the female line has generally displayed inspired leadership, probably commencing with Alicia Lalor, Peter Lalor’s wife Continue reading
Do you Remember Capuchin Annuals?
…the most astonishing thing is the quality, and enduring interest, of what’s between the covers. Continue reading
‘Is it Literature?’: Finding the music in ‘Finnegans Wake’
His prose is in fact very poetic, very much attuned to the melody of sound. Continue reading
The Swans of Lough Erne
On a windswept rugged mountainside in South West Donegal, three Melbourne cousins recently climbed the mountain to honour their grandfather, who lost his life seventy years earlier in the crash of an RAF Sunderland flying boat, whilst embarking on a mission patrolling for U-boats in the North Atlantic. Continue reading
Waywords and Meansigns: new ways into ‘Finnegans Wake’
‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading
Dáibhí de Barra and the Scribal Tradition
Dáibhí de Barra was the scribe of an Irish manuscript prayer book which he copied in 1833 and which is now held in the State Library of Victoria (MS 10595). The prayer book contains a litany in which, unusually, the Munster saints Finbarr, Olan and Mochuda (St Carthage) are invoked. Continue reading
The Spirit of Eureka at Gallipoli
On the 26 August 1914, as a member of the 12th Battalion, G Company, Captain Joseph Lalor sailed aboard Transport A7 Medic from Fremantle for overseas duty. Continue reading
Gallipoli – an Irish, as well as an Australian, campaign
Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar (The Foggy Dew) Continue reading
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