The Life and High Times of Oliver St John Gogarty – the Real Buck Mulligan Continue reading
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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
Booklaunch for centenary of Newman College
Michael Francis’s new book, Contesting Catholic Identity: The Foundation of Newman College, Melbourne, 1914-18, will be launched by Dr. Val Noone. Continue reading
Clan McKenna Gathering
The Clan Chieftain is visiting Australia for the event. Continue reading
When ‘Fenian’ meant ‘Terrorist’
A Book Review by Frank O’Shea Steve Harris. THE PRINCE AND THE ASSASSIN. Australia’s First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror. Melbourne Books, 2017. 326 pp. ISBN: 9781925556131 RRP: $32.95 If someone from a Muslim country were to shoot an Australian politician today, that person would almost certainly be called a terrorist. And just as … Continue reading
Ireland’s first diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of Australia
Mannix made the expected speech getting straight up the noses of loyal Australia by calling Kiernan the representative of the whole of Ireland. 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
‘No Irish Need Apply’
In the nineteenth century, job advertisements that specified that Irish should not apply were frequent enough in United States and England for songs, plays and jokes to be made about them. Continue reading
Synge: Elective Vagrant, and Writer
J.M.Synge and Travel Writing will send its readers back to the work being discussed with renewed interest. Continue reading
Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office Archives.
The records of the Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office constitute one of the most valuable collections of original source material for research into Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Continue reading
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