STEVE GOME, recently nominated for a Green Room Award, plays Peter, the toy soldier, in The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s classic tragic-comedy about the Easter Rising, and has been reflecting on a play he increasingly admires: A bunch of people crammed by circumstance into a confined area who know each other – as family, friend or foe … Continue reading
To celebrate the centenary of the proclamation of the Irish Republic at the Dublin GPO on 24 April 1916, the Melbourne Celtic Club, through its Cultural Heritage Committee is holding a competition to write a Proclamation for an Australian Republic. Continue reading
Celebrate the rich and enduring culture of the Irish in this stirring concert event. Continue reading
the final end of the Irish nation was at hand, unless they acted dramatically to call back the nation’s soul from the very shadow of death. Continue reading
Remembering the women of the 1916 Dublin rising. Continue reading
International film historian Charles Barr charts a pivotal moment in Ireland’s Independence, Continue reading
the 1916 Rising was watched closely by radicals and aspirant revolutionaries as far away as India and Russia Continue reading
the main emphasis of his address was to the impressive histories of all the Irish diaspora around the world, Continue reading
Homesickness was a wound but our dear children
in time helped us better relate to it all here, Continue reading
‘I now believe that the spiritual life is deeply political’ p.175.
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