The Surprise, moored at the Cove of Cork, and the Essex, at Kingstown in Dublin Bay (now Dun Laoghaire), were derelict ships which operated as holding prisons for convicts from 1823 until 1837. Continue reading
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First hand witness of the Famine
How did an anti-Mason Protestant Abolitionist, temperance advocate and vegetarian from Vermont (USA) become a first hand witness of the Great Famine and a practical advocate for famine relief? Continue reading
Summary of Irish History Circle Meeting June 2017.
Ireland had a G4 3000 years before Christ…. Continue reading
Killurin to Kalgoorlie: the making of Hugh Mahon
The Honourable Hugh Mahon is one of the most interesting personalities in the national legislature. There has been more stirring incident in his career than in a dozen ordinary men’s lives. Continue reading
Colloquium on Sunburnt Irish
Thousands of Irish left the country in ships carrying with them all they owned, including the Irish language Continue reading
Irish History Circle, May 2017
‘What defines Irish Nationalism ?’
plus Michael Davitt and the Land League Continue reading
Irish History Circle – 19 June 2017
What do we mean by Celtic Consciousness? Continue reading
Book Launch at MISS
Hugh Mahon has the dubious distinction of being the only member expelled from the federal parliament Continue reading
Henry Lawson’s Irish Characters
Lawson used Irish characters in his multicultural cast as a literary device, in the main a comic one Continue reading
Urban Irish
Urban Irish is a language with a distinctive past and, one would hope, a distinctive future. Continue reading
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