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
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‘Built by the Irish People’: reflections on the 1798 memorial at Waverley and the Irish Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks
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
St Bridget’s Day book launch 1 February 2019
A new book on the Irish in South Australia launched. Continue reading
Famine Amnesia
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
Sydney ISAANZ Conference Review
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
A Prize Winning Novel that Divides its Critics
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
Irish History Circle: Dublin Hospitals
An astounding number of voluntary charitable institutions sprang up in Dublin in the early eighteenth century. Continue reading
Stephen Kinsella, Economist/Journalist at MISS
The Economic strengths of small states are better focussed upon than their deficits, argues Stephen Kisella. Continue reading
A new film about the Vinegar Hill rebellion
An invitation to an event in Penrith (New South Wales). Continue reading
Sinn Fein – the early years 1905 – 1922
What if there had been no Easter Rising? Continue reading
