An fear ag rith
trí lánaí
um thráthnóna
The man running through lanes at evening Continue reading
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Novel of the Year 2022
TRESPASSES. By Louise Kennedy. Bloomsbury. 311 pp. €19.99 Review by Frank O’Shea This is the book that won the 2022 Irish Book of the Year and it is easy to imagine how the judges came to that decision. It is different in a number of ways, not least the modern style of omitting quotation marks … Continue reading
Elvis Presley’s Irish Roots
He had a granddaughter called Rosella who had several children, one of whom was a son called Jesse Presley. In 1913, Jesse Presley married a lady named Minnie Mae. They had a son in 1916 called Vernon Elvis Presley. Continue reading
A Blacksmith from Limerick in New York
Peter Clarke was indeed a blacksmith of Limerick. His father, Joseph, left Limerick and his business at Brunswick Lane and settled in New York in 1869. Continue reading
What’s On in February or March
Irish events coming up… Continue reading
A Brief History of the Irish in Australia
With the passage of time Irish Catholics eventually did become part of the fabric of Australian society. With the coming of each generation, they moved along and some of them, up the social scale. But their ascent was neither rapid nor easy. Continue reading
RECAPTURING THE IRISH SPIRIT AT EUREKA
‘ … the aftermath of the Eureka Stockade brought this nation a major step closer to a democratic system …’ Continue reading
British Espionage after The Rising
The Intelligence authorities found it difficult to accept that parents whose eldest adult child had been executed for his role in the Easter Rising, and who moreover had two more sons Volunteers (initially sentenced to death but commuted to 10-year sentences), were not actively involved in the Rising. Continue reading
VOICES of the Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Melbourne
In 2022, the commemoration committee searched for a new way of ‘bringing the girls to the table’. Continue reading
Bilingual Haiku
Crainn Jacaranda,/buamaí gorma áille…
Jacaranda trees,lovely explosions of blue. Continue reading
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