We may not sound Irish, but have a strong sense of our Irish-Australian identity. We’re a largely-untapped resource with much to contribute to Irish-Australia. Continue reading
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Deep Irish History, Culture and Language in New South Wales
Irish Language classes in Sydney, and history and archeology in Penrith and the Blue Mountains. Continue reading
It might be nonsense, but at least it’s clever nonsense
A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Brisbane
Readings, music, Irish literature more generally, and eating and drinking – Bloomsday at the Queensland Irish Association in Brisbane. Continue reading
Untold History
They remembered the Black and Tans. Twenty years later, they refused to be conscripted into the British army a world away. Continue reading
The Multiple Identities of the Irish in Victoria
Irish-Australians call ourselves Irish Catholics, which is true culturally but our spiritual formation was not specifically Irish, but continental Catholicism. Continue reading
A Town in Print
A fake new party in Listowel: Tom Doodle promised the citizens that he would open a factory for shaving the hair off gooseberries Continue reading
From the Papers
Some items from the news – Brexit, Roddy Doyle, Pat Spillane, Bertie Aherne, Mark O’Connor…. Continue reading
From Dublin with Love
Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage is the best remedy for a bad mood or a feeling that life is going too fast Continue reading
Recalling Daniel Mannix
Morgan’s book, The Mannix Era, is richly personal. It is written with considerable charm and an acerbic wit. But to read it in 2019 is to be overwhelmed by its masculinist perspective. Continue reading
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