Beauty and personal sovereignty – every moment spent in acknowledging beauty is an act of liberation: It is the act of breaking down the walls that separate us from beauty that truly releases us to experience freedom. Continue reading
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A Tsunami of Grief – Poets of the Rising and their friends.
Bloomsday in Melbourne’s A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of the Easter Rising will be a poetry reading with musical accompaniment. It features poems by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as poems about them by their friends, with dramatic biographical accounts interwoven through the readings. Directed and MC’d by Liam Gillespie, with cast including: Renee Huish, … Continue reading
Australasian Irish Studies Conference 2016
22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference.
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Bloomsday in Melbourne’s Year of Centenaries
Save the Dates! Bloomsday in Melbourne and the Easter Rising 1916 Centenary Commemorations Continue reading
Easter Rising conference in Melbourne
The Easter Rising of 1916 is a key event in the Revolutionary decade, 1913-23, and in Irish and world history. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival
The films in the festival shine a light on contemporary Ireland. Continue reading
Centenary of Easter Rising: Australian connections
Centenary of Easter Rising: Australian connections Continue reading
Intensive course on Joyce’s Portrait on 12 March 2016
Intensive course on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Continue reading
History is in the graveyards.
Exploring Glasnevin The process of providing detailed and dignified funerals for the Catholics of Ireland had been one that faced harsh limitations until the 1830s. The Penal Laws and ongoing discriminatory actions by religious and government officials journeyed through a process of repeal and debate, however it was a funeral in 1823 that altered the … Continue reading
Poetry by Michael Whelan
These poems tell a powerful story. Continue reading
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