Ireland, it has been said (perhaps a little too often), was once the site of extensive woodland, with its destruction attributed to the depredations of invaders, leaving a national treasure despoiled. On this narrative Nigel Everett casts a pleasingly sceptical eye. Continue reading
‘I now believe that the spiritual life is deeply political’ p.175.
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perhaps the biggest contrast is in the personality of the two central characters, hinted in the title that each chose for his book. Continue reading
Celebrating Irish and Irish-Australian women Continue reading
a tour of Dublin’s forgotten 1916 Battlefield.
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His Excellency, the Irish Ambassador to Australia, the Honourable Noel White, will be the guest speaker at this year’s event. Continue reading
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
Joe Devlin’s tour of country Queensland in 1906 followed hard on the heels of Redmond’s earlier lucrative one, advocating Home rule. Continue reading
if this was all we had a thousand years from now, it would be the basis for a sound reconstruction of the political, social and economic life in Ireland in the century since 1916. Continue reading
Such was the case 100 years ago as an entire sporting generation was decimated, not by accident or mishap, but by dint of their valour and sacrifice. Continue reading
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