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
‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading
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
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
Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar (The Foggy Dew) Continue reading
During 1967, Monash decided to abolish some of the Clubs and Societies because they were considered too frivolous to subsidise and one of these, unfortunately, was ‘The Sons of Erin’. Continue reading
Our First Day in Ireland & the day the IRA have declared a ceasefire – to take place at midnight tonight. Continue reading
Riverrun, an adaptation of the last section of Finnegans Wake, by Olwen Fouéré, had its genesis in Sydney in 2011…. Continue reading
the St Brigid’s cross is living proof that prejudice and anti tolerance will not win. Continue reading
We are indebted to Professor Chandler for placing Edgeworth’s fine novel before us. It is a multi-faceted work deserving of much study for its range of characters, comedy, satire, social commentary, philosophy and scholarship. Continue reading
