this compelling novel tells the story of four Irish famine girls and their voyage to Australia in 1848. Continue reading
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Quaker Connections discovered in suburban Melbourne
Descendents of Quakers in Dublin meet over dinner in Melbourne…. Continue reading
The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, published by Cork University Press and co-edited by Michael Murphy, won the Irish Published Book of the Year. The Famine is the most pivotal event in Irish modern history. Over a million people perished between 1845 -1852 and well over a million others fled to Europe, America, Australia and other … Continue reading
Kerry Genealogy Road Show
this project is the most significant genealogy advisory and tourism event in the country and saw it as an excellent opportunity to advise thousands of visitors to Kerry. Continue reading
The Famine Pot
this aspect of the potato failure was almost air-brushed from our history.
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William Smith O’Brien, Compulsive Traveller
Davis traces O’Brien’s extensive travels over a 20 year period, both before and after O’Brien’s sojourn in Tasmania as a political prisoner. Continue reading
Ireland XO – Reaching Out
Centuries old art work on the headstones provided fascinating and enjoyable reading Continue reading
Henri Le Caron: British Agent in the Fenian Ranks
Dubbed ‘the champion spy of the century’ for twenty five years Henri Le Caron operated as a British mole inside the Fenian movement. Continue reading
A Tourist in the 1850s and 1860s: William Smith O’Brien
In 1849 William Smith O’Brien’s interest in foreign travel was boosted on his transportation for High Treason to Van Diemen’s Land, and despite all the problems and irritations of foreign travel in the nineteenth century, O’Brien never gave up foreign travel, and assiduously recorded his experiences Continue reading
Piecing together Elusive Fragments
The Introduction of Val Noone’s ‘Hidden Ireland in Victoria’ outlines some reasons for the elusiveness of the Irish language in historical records and launches a beautiful metaphor of beachcombing to express the work’s methodology for recovering whatever remains of the Irish Gaelic heritage. Continue reading
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