It was the first time that a Unionist leader had attended an Ulster GAA final. Continue reading
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Pete Lalor at the Celtic@Metropolitan
Pete Lalor is a Melbourne based Irish Australian singer-songwriter. The music genre is generally within folk and rock Continue reading
My very manhood seems sapped: Negotiating Gender in the Irish Charity Market, 1920-1940’
Nature of event: MISS seminar Lindsey Earner-Byrne UCD Where: The Oratory, Newman College. (When entering from Swanston Street, turn right into the main College building and up the stairs on the right of the corridor.) When: Tuesday 10th July 2018. Pre-seminar drinks will be at 6 p.m. and the paper will commence at 6.15 pm. Further information: ‘My … Continue reading
Barney Devlin: tribute to a friend and teacher
Barney’s personal abilities, charm, compassion and wit have impacted all of us who knew him Continue reading
A united Ireland must be planned for in the future
It is time the issue of the future of Northern Ireland to be squarely faced. Continue reading
Mud and Blood
Calls for Donations for a new play about WWI by Irish-Australian poet, Meg McNena. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday in Melbourne
While the setting and the craic is unmistakably Dublin, the literary tour embraces some Irish writers (Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan) but mostly lashes out at English classics – the revenge of a supremely gifted Irish writer on English letters. Continue reading
Irish Language Writers
How many writers are writing in Irish? The answer is surprising…. Continue reading
Irish in Britain Representation Group (IBRG)
We received the following communication from IBRG a chara/dear friend I am writing to let you know about my work on cataloguing the Irish in Britain Representation Group archive, which was lodged at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford some years ago. IBRG was a campaigning organisation from 1982 to 2000, established because of … Continue reading
Ireland set to vote on the Eighth Amendment
Between the initial insertion of the Eighth into the Constitution in 1983 and the current proposed removal, there have been four additional referenda pertaining to abortion – two which passed, and two which failed. Continue reading
