The artist Hossein Valamanesh always insisted the monument was not just about the Great Irish Famine but about all famine. For me, this is what makes it a great monument. Continue reading
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From the Papers
Snippets from the newsrooms. Continue reading
Congratulations
Two new OAM recipients with connection to Tintean Continue reading
Recalling Dorothy Day
The Pope named her with Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton as four great Americans. Continue reading
From The Papers
Short items from past four weeks. Continue reading
Hospital Pass
Your partners are your long-time opponents, there’s a pandemic, there is noise on you backbench … and then there are the Greens. Who would want to be Taoiseach? Continue reading
Poetry by Michael Boyle
The only 1916 rebel to be given a state funeral Continue reading
ISAANZ25 Off and MISS On
ISAANZ Conference has had to be cancelled but those interested anywhere in Australia and elsewhere may want to join Melbourne Irish Studies Seminars online. Continue reading
THE GOVERNMENT’S FIRST TEN DAYS
The new and different Irish Coalition Government has presided over the first significant relaxation of lockdown, but it will be a considerable time before the Economy scrambles back to any semblance of normality. Continue reading
From the Papers
Intriguing snippets from the Irish press. Continue reading
