Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
Filed under feminism …
Feminists before First Wave
This book on Nano Nagle and her legacy casts a powerful gaze on the lives and culture of a body of nuns whose charism was particularly and importantly focused on girls Continue reading
Eureka’s Children Dinner and Awards Night
Eureka’s Children’s annual Eureka Democracy Award Dinner Continue reading
100 years of Irish Women’s Suffrage
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
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
