The threat of sudden and violent death from those operating outside the expectations of civilised life is a resonant one for so many other places in our world, not least in Ireland. Continue reading
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‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman Way’: David Marr on George Pell
Whether his apparently tin ear in dealing with victims and their families is personal inadequacy or an effect of his hierarchical remoteness from his flock is hard to say but maybe, as Marr reports, it is because ‘He’s Roman and that’s the Roman way’. Continue reading
The Regalia 1826: An eventful voyage
…we have to take a terrible bad set with us – they have set the ship on fire five times during this last fortnight. The Guard was obliged to shoot one of them. Continue reading
Henri Le Caron: British Agent in the Fenian Ranks
Dubbed ‘the champion spy of the century’ for twenty five years Henri Le Caron operated as a British mole inside the Fenian movement. Continue reading
A Tourist in the 1850s and 1860s: William Smith O’Brien
In 1849 William Smith O’Brien’s interest in foreign travel was boosted on his transportation for High Treason to Van Diemen’s Land, and despite all the problems and irritations of foreign travel in the nineteenth century, O’Brien never gave up foreign travel, and assiduously recorded his experiences Continue reading
HEARTH DREAMING
This rekindling of the virtual hearth allows us to identify who we are Continue reading
The Melbourne Irish
For a number of reasons Melbourne became the focal point in Australia of consciousness of being Irish Australian, and of consciousness of the wrongs of old Ireland. Continue reading
‘Death or liberty, and a ship to take us home…’
The influx of so many seasoned Irish rebels was a problem for the authorities in Port Jackson. Continue reading
Linking Laois to Eureka
This will be one of the major centres where people can learn about how the democratic process began in Australia Continue reading
She was but a dull sailor
Trevor’s practice was to send every man who was ambulatory to the colony of NSW which was well known to the naval surgeons . Continue reading
