Nobody would quarrel with the claim that Brigid herself ‘belongs to everyone’. Continue reading
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‘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
Linking Laois to Eureka
This will be one of the major centres where people can learn about how the democratic process began in Australia Continue reading
Climbing Mount Brandon
… climbing Brandon has been part of an ancient pilgrimage route going back to pre-Christian times. Lughnasa on the last weekend in July was the traditional pilgrimage time… Continue reading
JOHN COULTER – IRELAND’S WHALING SURGEON
All a whaling surgeon could be sure of was hardship, years away from home, a small income, and meagre free board and lodging for the length of the voyage. Continue reading
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