Celtic Studies Conference, Sydney September 25-27, 2023 The Tenth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will be hosted by the Celtic Language Teaching and Research, School of Art, Communications and English, The University of Sydney in person and online. Online sessions will take place in the early evening Sydney time, to facilitate internationalparticipation, and will be … Continue reading
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Irish history and its popular versions
But as books must and will be produced to meet the demand, it is now both timely and fair to ask what kind of ‘Irish history’ are we going to have? As a race, we have an extraordinary habit of make-believe. Continue reading
A Really Embarrassing Moment at St. Pat’s
My students were full of energy, fun-loving and were certainly not vindictive or in any way mean, but they loved playing pranks… Continue reading
The Dictionary and Lost Irish Words
Is there bias in dictionary compiling? Ultimately, yes. Continue reading
Tribute to Sinéad O’Connor
So much has been said, in media all over the world, interviews, music played and replayed, so many tributes. For me? the shattering realization, she’s gone. Continue reading
Anne Casey Sydney Irish Poet
The bilingual poem below was commissioned as part of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship 2022 Continue reading
Reflecting on The Banshees of Inisherin
I read The Banshees of Inisherin as an allegory of this vicious civil conflict, told in a loose but recognisable metaphor of the breakdown of a once close friendship. Continue reading
A Convict Keeps Her Wits About Her
The Ship Wife examines the cruel system of convictism, the born-to-rule assumptions of Empire and its subjugation by violence of its first (Ireland) and a subsequent colony (Australia), and the injustices of a marriage system that robbed women of rights. Continue reading
Should We Forget and Vote for Them?
Two new books about the IRA bombing campaigns of the 70s and 80s. Continue reading
Fintan O’Toole’s Latest – an antipodean perspective
For the marginal outsider like myself, this book explained the geopolitical realignments that occurred so quickly and unexpectedly in Ireland between 1958 and 2018. Continue reading
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