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
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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
Ireland Reaching Out
Find out where your ancestors came from and reconnect with your place of origin. Continue reading
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
