A FEATURE by Jeff Kildea Republished from Jeff Kildea’s Blog with his permission. When I arrived at Dublin’s Grangegorman Military Cemetery this morning at 6 o’clock for the Anzac Day dawn service to commemorate all those who died in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, a crescent moon was rising in the east. Very appropriate, I … Continue reading
A fearless rebel rather than a criminal…. Continue reading
The Central Victorian Irish Association Inc presents: King Brian Ború 1000th Anniversary Commemoration Recounting the life of King Brian Ború in narrative, music, poetry, story-telling and song. Sunday 18 May 2014 at 1:30pm (for 2pm start) at The Brian Ború Hotel, Cnr Chapel St & McIvor Hwy, Bendigo. Entry – Gold coin donation Call 5443 9746 or 5442 6649 or visit … Continue reading
Mickey. Make the silence speak before you ever open your mouth. In other words never speak to a class or make presentation until you have their complete and undivided attention. Continue reading
There cannot be many Irish people of a particular age who have not heard of Arkle. Continue reading
To assert that an attack was doomed to failure would be to deny the role of human freedom, Continue reading
The period from 1880 to 1907 appears to be the main foundation date for most of the churches named for St. Carthage in Australia ….. Continue reading
Only a small number of these ‘Irishtowns’ officially exist today, all of them small towns or localities in rural settings. Continue reading
Credit has been slow in coming … for the members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the RIC. Continue reading
Was there a ‘gendered’ difference in the colonial experience of the first generation of Famine migrants? Did the women adapt more readily? Were women more willingly acculturated? Were they more independent in their choice of marriage partners? Was the regrouping of their family more likely to be ‘transitional’ than that of Irish men? These are questions about women’s role in their family emigration strategy that can, and still need to be addressed.
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