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A Virtual Festival coming from Cork

8-16 June 2021 Tailored by Joya Kuin, Festival & Event Manager, for Antipodean involvement! ONLINE EVENT – HERITAGELUNCHTIME LECTURE: ‘Convict Hulks and Transportation from Cork Harbour in the Nineteenth Century’In association with UCC School of History & Dr. John Borgonovo8 JUNE 2021, 1.10pm-2pmFREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED Speaker: Dr Anna Lois McKay, UCC. Cork Harbour was a centre … Continue reading →

From the Papers

The IRA say sorry? Interviewed on a British radio program, leader of Sinn Fein Mary Lou McDonald said she was ‘sorry’ for the death of Louis Mountbatten and the three others who were killed by the IRA in a boat off the coast of Sligo in 1979. Whether this constituted an ‘apology’ is not clear, … Continue reading →

Poems by David Harris

Poems by David Harris

Today, on our morning swim together.
I watch her dive, hair streaming,
at home among the waves…
You won’t find these in the bush.
Thistles, nettles, tumbleweed,
three-cornered jacks, horehound, Continue reading →

Editorial

‘People are less defensive about being Irish now,’ wrote Bob Scally in The New York Times, back in the 1990s. That obviously referred to America, but applied to Australia also, now as then. Although ‘Irish’ was the third highest reported ancestry in the 2016 Australian census, at 10.2%, only 0.4% of the population in 2016 … Continue reading →