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Ireland’s Catholic Future
Traditional Irish Catholicism is not something that goes back to St. Patrick. Continue reading
DANIEL MANNIX: HIS LEGACY
This first experience of Australian street life stayed with him throughout his long episcopate. Continue reading
New light on Irish literature and Daniel Corkery
Heather Laird’s splendid book suggests that Corkery is better understood as part of an international anti-colonialist stream… Continue reading
Eneclann
As well as researching family histories, the team investigates house histories and undertakes heritage projects for public and private clients Continue reading
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