A book of essays reissued to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage in Ireland in 2018 full of interest for the general reader. Continue reading
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Australia and Ireland in the bitter year of 1917
1917 was a bitter year – probably the most bitter in white Australia’s history – but also one of which Irish Australians can be proud. Continue reading
Mary Kenneally at Brigidfest
Is comedy serious? Mary Kenneally on the risks and adventures of a life in comedy Continue reading
Bringing the Táin bo Cuailnge to vivid life via its women
A feisty recreation of Ireland’s ancient epic. Continue reading
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
A robust defence of Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Continue reading
No Ordinary Women. Book review
The part played by women in the fight for Irish Independence has not been well chronicled. We know that there were women in the GPO in 1916 and that Countess Markievicz was 2IC to Michael Mallin in St Stephen’s Green. Continue reading
Australian Women’s History Network Conference in 2016.
We invite papers that explore ‘intersections’ in women’s, feminist and gender history from a variety of perspectives, Continue reading
Brigidfest 2016
Celebrating Irish and Irish-Australian women 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
Do you Remember Capuchin Annuals?
…the most astonishing thing is the quality, and enduring interest, of what’s between the covers. Continue reading
