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Earl Grey’s Irish Famine orphans: the Bridget Effect
Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading
Fraud in Ireland
Former footballer gives a riveting account of the workings of the fraud squad, from an insider’s perspective. Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Three new Irish or Irish Australian fictions reviewed by book-devourer, Frank O’Shea Continue reading
What’s On
Upcoming Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar on Heaney’s visit to Australia in 1994. Continue reading
Between Two Hells
One hundred years ago this month, Ireland found that it had to deal with former comrades fighting and killing each other. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. Continue reading
Are the Torys Irish?
it appears to be an insult directed against the Irish. How ,then, did it end up as a name for an English political party? Continue reading
Sixty Years of Ireland
One of Ireland’s best-known writers and his take on the years since he was born in 1958 Continue reading
Before the Dawn by Michael Boyle
Not another house in Ireland
ever had had so many
Saint Brigit crosses made by
Cassie’s hand. Continue reading
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