Lindie Naughton’s compelling new book sheds fresh light on all facets of Markievicz’s life Continue reading
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1916 Commemorative Concert presented by the CVIA.
Poetry and songs in the Irish language will be a feature of this event. Continue reading
Proud Irish Aboriginal Senator gives Maiden Speech
Malarndirri became immersed in the Yanyuwa/Garawa culture that was her birthright Continue reading
Commemoration of Archbishop Daniel Mannix’s First Speech Against Conscription.
As the pool of Australian volunteers had begun to dry, Prime Minister Hughes, ever an avid defender and supporter of the British Empire and of Australia as a key dominion, sought to conscript additional Australian manpower. Continue reading
Irish Famine Eviction Project
We are looking for any informaiton of evictions, locations and local folklore. Continue reading
David Monaghan’s ‘On Leaving’ enters its final phase
Beyond Leaving is a new series and the title of David Monahan’s upcoming show Continue reading
Convicted on a Comma: The Trial of Roger Casement
A man who strode the world stage as a courageous reforming anti-colonialist. Continue reading
Crisis in the Courts after 1916
After the Rising bridges the gap between May 1916 and the Truce in mid-1921.During this period the justice system appeared to be in constant crisis as the authorities struggled to deal with the growing insurrection in the years following the Easter Rebellion. Continue reading
‘Convicted on a Comma’, explained perfectly
Haunted by the scale of barbaric atrocities unleashed by imperialist colonisation in the Congo and later in the Putumayo, Colombia, Casement aligned with the Irish ‘freedom fighters’ who believed the Irish could achieve freedom from the scourge of British colonialism. Continue reading
The Quixotic Generation of 1916
What is most striking to me about the pre-Rising Irish middle-class is its freewheeling bohemian character: romantic advanced nationalism provided many fora (meetings, dance-floors, remote country language camps, amateur and professional theatrical stages, communist communes) for debating and living secularism, feminism, suffragism, even vegetarianism and lesbianism. Continue reading
