The underwritten statement of excommunication is to be published with the usual ceremonies of Bell, Book and Candle at each of your respective Masses on Sunday next, the 17th instant, and you are to read it in Irish, where the ignorance of the English language amongst the generality of your parishioners may render it necessary. You are likewise to explain the nature and dreadful consequences of an Excommunication, and by every possible method endeavour to prevent your people from being exposed to so great an evil. Continue reading
Filed under Irish Studies …
A Modern Gathering at the Gallows
Of course, many would ask why – or even how – Ned Kelly elicits such interest, some 146 years after his death; this son of convict John Kelly from County Tipperary and Bounty Migrant Ellen Quinn of County Antrim? Continue reading
A Cinema Coming Into Its Own
Enda Murray on Ireland, Identity and finding home on screen A Feature by Jamie Henry For Enda Murray, Irish cinema has travelled a long way from the social realism of the 1970s. Today, it is a more confident, internationally connected industry, unafraid to revisit the past or challenge old ideas of Irish identity. And thousands … Continue reading
Who Gets to Call the Songs Home?
He was playing bass in a rock band and, as he put it, was ‘too cool for school’. When his father underwent quadruple bypass surgery, Finbarr stepped in for a tour, learning songs on the five-string banjo. The experience changed his understanding of the music. Continue reading
Seamus Sands – sean nós fiddler – A Tribute
There is something precious about the moment: it is unique, unrepeatable and pays homage to a past that forms part of the identity of anyone with Irish ancestry. Continue reading
What’s on November/December and beyond
Irish in Australia: Irish-themed Movies, Tours, and Festivals Continue reading
Seamus Heaney and silencing the ‘flail’
Heaney’s poetry is full of surprises. It would appear that he knew everything about the flail, but he seemed to refuse to give it a poetic voice. Continue reading
190-year anniversary of an acclaimed and esteemed Irish pioneer settler in Adelaide
Kingston was young, keen, and, above all, fit enough in the summer heat to negotiate the dense forest in what was later named Hindley Street. On 6 November 1836, his thirsty dog came across what turned out to be the river Torrens; it was subsequently named after the Derry-born Chairman of the South Australian Colonisation Commission, Colonel Robert Torrens. Continue reading
Filíocht/Poetry/Gearrscéal/ Short Story: Hugh Curran, Colette Ní Ghallchóir, Colin Ryan, Tommy Fogarty.
At the cemetery, Canada geese nibbled grass as my nephew played ‘Danny Boy’ on his saxophone Continue reading
The Woman Who Fell Into A War
She skims over my skin, like a wire brush …. Continue reading