Their letters amount to a good deal more than a litany of woes and requests; embedded in some and explicit in others is a deep social critique of the universe they inhabited. Continue reading
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Mud and Blood
Calls for Donations for a new play about WWI by Irish-Australian poet, Meg McNena. Continue reading
Ned Kelly Fundraising Dinner in Glenrowan
A fundraising dinner to be held to create a Ned Kelly Museum at Glenrowan. Continue reading
Holy Cow! Bloomsday’s 2018 Festival
Holy Cow! Bloomsday in Melbourne’s 25th season celebrates women, fertility, the uses and abuses of tradition. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday in Melbourne
While the setting and the craic is unmistakably Dublin, the literary tour embraces some Irish writers (Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan) but mostly lashes out at English classics – the revenge of a supremely gifted Irish writer on English letters. Continue reading
Irish Language Writers
How many writers are writing in Irish? The answer is surprising…. Continue reading
A Seminar at the University of Western Sydney
A seminar on the writing of Claire Keegan coming up in Sydney. Continue reading
Irish in Britain Representation Group (IBRG)
We received the following communication from IBRG a chara/dear friend I am writing to let you know about my work on cataloguing the Irish in Britain Representation Group archive, which was lodged at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford some years ago. IBRG was a campaigning organisation from 1982 to 2000, established because of … Continue reading
Ireland set to vote on the Eighth Amendment
Between the initial insertion of the Eighth into the Constitution in 1983 and the current proposed removal, there have been four additional referenda pertaining to abortion – two which passed, and two which failed. Continue reading
St Dymphna’s, Booborowie
It’s not every day one gets to go to the deconsecration of a church, and in fact, this was my first – St Dymphna’s at Boborowie. And who was St Dymphna? Continue reading
