The badges are a tangible link with the past and are unique to South Australia. Continue reading
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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
Barry V Kelly
Ned Kelly in Emerald. Continue reading
Call for Papers for ISAANZ Conference in Adelaide
A call for papers for an Irish Studies conference foregrounding women. Continue reading
The Warwick Irish Before the Egg, or John McEniery’s Shillelagh
The Irish stamp on Warwick is inescapable: its heritage-listed, gothic-revival sandstone edifices, the Cloisters (formerly Our Lady of the Assumption Convent) and St Mary’s Catholic Church dominate the townscape. Continue reading
‘Built by the Irish People’: reflections on the 1798 memorial at Waverley and the Irish Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks
There are two significant memorials erected in Sydney in response to major events in Irish history: the 1798 Memorial at Waverley Cemetery built at the time of the centenary of the ’98 uprising, and the Australia Memorial to the Great Irish Famine unveiled in 1999. Continue reading
Early Suffragist Honoured
An Irish ‘anarchist’ makes Suffragist history later in life – the case of Mary Lee. Continue reading
St Bridget’s Day book launch 1 February 2019
A new book on the Irish in South Australia launched. Continue reading
Telling War Stories through Postage Stamps
The An Post images tell the story of reconciliation: that both sides suffered as a consequence of war and also the 1916 rising. Continue reading
Antonia Fraser on Emancipation
Antonia Fraser manages to make an engrossing story about what many might regard as a dry, academic topic: the granting of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. Continue reading
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