he obviously was a good bushman, and an active and effective surveyor. He was interested in the history of the land he measured, and he respected and made use of Aboriginal knowledge. Continue reading
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Michael Boyle’s poems of exile and return
Going Back Home Again When are you going back?”Often I reply-I have an open ticket. Cups of tea full of sugar and milkThe full Irish or Ulster frySomber heart felt chatby stony graveyard walls.Old paths – now jungle under growthsYou wonder where time went.No one here knows you anymore.A couple of older neighborsstill tell how … Continue reading
Irish Fiddle Music in Nulla Nulla Creek
A musical tradition found along the banks of the winding stream that makes up the Nulla Nulla Creek where my grandfather Billy Kyle lovingly nurtured Irish traditional music so that we too remember and indeed continue to cherish those songs and sounds today. Continue reading
New Year’s Resolutions as Therapy
A novel featuring post Celtic Tiger Ireland. Continue reading
Three New Irish Women Writers
One from Sligo, one from Galway, one from Dublin, three modern Irish women writers Continue reading
What’s On: Clannad farewell tour; St Patrick’s Day; Sydney Irish Film Festival; 2nd Global Irish Diaspora Congress
St Pat’s events, Sydney Irish Film Festival & Films online Continue reading
Preview: Six Nations 2023
What does this year’s Six Nations hold? The first round is already over, so some questions are already answered and others have emerged. Continue reading
Professor J. C. Beckett (1912-96)
Professor Beckett in the Quadrangle of Queen’s University Belfast c. 1975
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A United Ireland
A Political Feature by Gerry O’Shea The census figures for Northern Ireland released last September show Catholics, broadly understood, at 45.7%, and Protestants or people brought up in the Reformation culture at 43.5%. Ten years earlier, the figures were 48.45% Protestant and 45.1% Catholic. The statelet that was officially designed in 1920 to have a permanent … Continue reading
Summer Schools at Koroit and Bungendore
On being first-timers at Lake School, and teaching Irish at Bungendore. Continue reading
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