Had Casement been a conventional man, married with a wife and family in Ireland, he would never have been free to have travelled as he did in such difficult realms, and re-defined so radically, at such cost to himself, and at such a critical point in history, geo-politics and social justice agendas. Continue reading
Women trekked over uncertain ground, took shelter where they could, panned for gold, or tended the campfire for their menfolk. They conceived, gave birth and reared children under canvas in searing heat and dust in summer and in the cold damp in winter… Continue reading
Ironically, the Irish radical Duffy was the only member of the new parliament who had served in the House of Commons in London. Continue reading
Evelyn Conlon is now officially an Australian novelist: her latest novel, Not the Same Sky, about Irish Famine Orphans of the 1840s, sits proudly among the Australian novels in Readings bookshop. Continue reading
Invitation to the launch of a new book by Dermot Meleady on the leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond. Continue reading
I wish to establish, once and for all, the right of John Field to be credited with the invention and naming of the nocturne. Continue reading
In this highly readable memoir, Mary, in conjunction with her daughter, Tessa, narrates how a ‘reserved freckle-faced bookworm’ (p.26) from Ballina ‘a small town in a small country on the western periphery of Europe’, became one of Ireland’s most recognisable and celebrated leaders, both domestically and internationally. Continue reading
The monument was inspired by the arrival in Australia of over 4,000 single young women, most of whom were teenaged orphans. Continue reading
With the right opportunities they can be the foundation of stable families for the future.’ Continue reading
…we have to take a terrible bad set with us – they have set the ship on fire five times during this last fortnight. The Guard was obliged to shoot one of them. Continue reading
Tinteán 