Barry Versus Kelly is unabashedly and unashamedly partisan show, which tells a very familiar story in quirky ways that are always entertaining. Continue reading
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Book Launch of book about Phonse Tobin
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‘The Unremembered Man’ of British, Irish and Newfoundland History
A Feature about Major General Sir Hugh Henry Tudor KCB, CMG (1871 -1965) By Michael Boyle General Hugh Henry Tudor: his friends would have called him Hugh or Hughie, never ever Henry. What happened to him after he left Ireland? Everyone is familiar with the Black and Tans, but I wager very few today … Continue reading
A Paean in Praise of Theatre
A Director in love with Oscar Wilde and his theatre of other possible futures…. Continue reading
The Trial of Ned Kelly Staged
Nature of Event: Barry Versus Kelly – The tragic story of Australia’s folk hero, Ned Kelly and the judge who hanged him. A musical drama by Felix Meagher (with additional music by Lou Hesterman and Cyril Moran) about the trial and execution of Ned Kelly in November 1880. about the Trial of Ned Kelly, the classic confrontation between … Continue reading
Thirty Years of News and Comment
Since its first edition in February 1989, the ‘Irish Echo’ has not missed an issue Continue reading
A Story to Thrill and Delight
The Catalpa escape involved the rescue of six men serving life sentences. All were former British soldiers who had taken the Fenian oath. Continue reading
Untold History
They remembered the Black and Tans. Twenty years later, they refused to be conscripted into the British army a world away. Continue reading
Brilliantly Inventive Stoppard Play for Bloomsday
Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
The Multiple Identities of the Irish in Victoria
Irish-Australians call ourselves Irish Catholics, which is true culturally but our spiritual formation was not specifically Irish, but continental Catholicism. Continue reading