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
this compelling novel tells the story of four Irish famine girls and their voyage to Australia in 1848. Continue reading
Descendents of Quakers in Dublin meet over dinner in Melbourne…. Continue reading
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
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
this aspect of the potato failure was almost air-brushed from our history.
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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
