Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme In 2013 the Government established an ex-gratia redress scheme for the benefit of women who were admitted to and worked in one of 12 ‘Magdalen’ institutions. The Government has now decided to apply the scheme to women who worked in the laundries in those 12 institutions but who were resident … Continue reading
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Mud and Blood by Meg McNena
The play powerfully captures in battle and at home the courage of Australian men and women. Continue reading
Sinn Fein – the early years 1905 – 1922
What if there had been no Easter Rising? Continue reading
Mannix and Ireland in the 1920s
Mannix and De Valera had swapped places; De Valera in his early years wanted to be a bishop, Mannix now aspired to the role of statesman Continue reading
Walking the NI Border before the Good Friday Agreement
Insistent talk of hard and soft borders in the North revived this readers’s interest in Spike Milligan’s lampoon, Puckoon(Penguin, 1963), Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood: A Walk along the Irish Border(Vintage, 1987). Continue reading
Exploring Histories Of Irish And Indigenous Australia
Irish Australians varied enormously in their attitudes towards Indigneous Australians from friendship to violent dispossession.
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Mud and Blood
Calls for Donations for a new play about WWI by Irish-Australian poet, Meg McNena. Continue reading
Remembering the Troubles
These oral histories detail the ordinary activist – those from working-class backgrounds who, in contrast to the revolutionary élite, rarely recorded their thoughts in letters, diaries or memoirs. Continue reading
Not-Always-Harmonious Australia
… So it is a book about division. But I think it is also one about integration … Continue reading
The Rivers of Dublin
The systematic provision of sewers in Dublin started around 1810. Watercourses and tributaries were incorporated into the sewerage system covering a complete network of approximately 1,300 miles… Continue reading
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