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
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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
World Première of play on Oliver St. John Gogarty
The Life and High Times of Oliver St John Gogarty – the Real Buck Mulligan 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
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
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