As well as researching family histories, the team investigates house histories and undertakes heritage projects for public and private clients Continue reading
Filed under History …
The Melbourne Irish
For a number of reasons Melbourne became the focal point in Australia of consciousness of being Irish Australian, and of consciousness of the wrongs of old Ireland. Continue reading
A Daughter Remembers
Looking ahead, Mary Elizabeth Calwell’s memoir of her distinguished father Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973) will be a useful guide to what might be called a family view of the many controversies of his political and public life. Continue reading
Can the Tide of History be turned back?
When he set up a series of properties between Melbourne and the Murray, he was more appeasing in his relationships with Aborigines, making an effort to learn the language, Continue reading
A City in Decline
Dublin was a deposed and distressed capital, a city in decline. Continue reading
Apology offered to Magdalene Survivors
They were used as unpaid labour under draconian working conditions. Continue reading
Reflections on BrigidFest 2013
Nobody would quarrel with the claim that Brigid herself ‘belongs to everyone’. Continue reading
‘Death or liberty, and a ship to take us home…’
The influx of so many seasoned Irish rebels was a problem for the authorities in Port Jackson. Continue reading
Memorialising the Famine
The text of a talk given at the Famine Memorial in Williamstown on 18 November by Perry McIntyre.
This talk is in two parts. The first concerns memoralisation of the Famine, specifically the background to the building of Sydney Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney incorporated into the wall which offered protection for immigrant women, beginning with the first shipload of workhouse orphan women and, ironically, standing on the site of the original Barrack kitchens. The second part places these young Irish immigrants to Australia between 1848 and 1850 in the context of single female immigration and brings them into a 21st century context. Continue reading
John Fihelly – politician and patriot
With the Irish uprising of Easter 1916, many associated conscription in Australia as support for British domination in Ireland. Continue reading
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