Sine fadas all over the place. Continue reading
Filed under law …
‘A very jolly spree’: Irish Contraceptive Laws in the 70s
I have never smuggled anything over borders before or since and I was extremely nervous, but our car was not searched on the way over. The return trip was a different matter. Continue reading
Ghosts of Irish-Australia: Barnaby Fitzpatrick
Nobody wanted to know convicts in early British settlement of Australia and now family historians are eager to find a connection to a convict in their family tree. How times have changed. Continue reading
Fethard-born Adam Loftus Lynn, Ballarat’s first practising solicitor
An Irish lawyer practises from a tent on the gold-fields in Ballarat. Continue reading
Irish judges in Australia: South Australia’s experience
Irish judges and politicians in colonial Australia have been credited with ‘undermining British Australia’ and ‘transforming English law’ in Australia and contributing to ‘Irish Supremacy’ down under. Strong words! Continue reading