For some months in 2019-20, Tinteán has been featuring an article on one of the so-called Earl Grey girls. These were young women, mostly orphans, from the workhouses where they had been put during the early days of the Great Famine. They are remembered in particular at a memorial in the Hyde Park barracks in … Continue reading
The Irish Program at Melbourne’s ethnic community radio station 3ZZZ and the Celtic recently invited Tinteán to make a radio programme in celebration of twenty continuous years of Australian Irish Australian publication: the magazine Táin (1999-2007) was a full-colour publication that morphed into the hard copy of Tinteán in 2007. The magazine finally moved online … Continue reading
Jonathan Swift, privy to a murder? Continue reading
Snippets from the Irish Press. Continue reading
Obituary notice for Peg Cockram Continue reading
Two more film reviews from the Online Irish Film Festival (19-29 November). Three more will be reviewed in our January issue. Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens Reviewed by Shauna Stanley Everyone remembers the first time they read a Seamus Heaney poem. I was aged 10, sitting in a prefab in 4th class, … Continue reading
This documentary warrants many viewings for a full appreciation of Steve Cooney, a hero of Irish traditional music. But with just one viewing, there’s eating and drinking in it. Continue reading
6TH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL PROGRAM The popular annual Irish Film Festival returns from 19 – 29 November with its biggest line-up ever. Moved online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, cinephiles all over Australia can now catch the best new Irish cinema releases without leaving their homes. The online festival program is packed … Continue reading
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
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Sinead Davies has painted fellow Irish-born Australian Claire Dunne, OAM, and the painting was shortlisted for the Archibald Prize. Continue reading
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