Papers will range from Irish orphan stories, Mary Lee, women in the 1916 Rising and conscription, Irish nuns and identity, chain migration, women in World War 1, through to the 20th century ‘Troubles’ and abortion reform and neonatal deaths. Continue reading
Mary Ann McMaster came to Australia under the Earl Grey Scheme. Continue reading
Irish Language classes in Sydney, and history and archeology in Penrith and the Blue Mountains. Continue reading
This book on Nano Nagle and her legacy casts a powerful gaze on the lives and culture of a body of nuns whose charism was particularly and importantly focused on girls Continue reading
There are two significant memorials erected in Sydney in response to major events in Irish history: the 1798 Memorial at Waverley Cemetery built at the time of the centenary of the ’98 uprising, and the Australia Memorial to the Great Irish Famine unveiled in 1999. Continue reading
A new book on the Irish in South Australia launched. Continue reading
By Frank O’Shea The word ‘amnesia’ was heard several times at the Famine round table in the Williamstown Town Hall on October 28. It was used to describe the way that Ireland seemed to have forgotten about the Great Famine of 1845-51 until it was brought to public discourse following the publication of Cecil Woodham-Smith’s … Continue reading
For the first time in its history the Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ) conference began with an Irish language day Continue reading
The most disconcerting aspect of Milkman is that it sits so easily in the definition of Northern Ireland as an inevitably enduring site of sectarianism. Continue reading
An astounding number of voluntary charitable institutions sprang up in Dublin in the early eighteenth century. Continue reading
