His Excellency, the Irish Ambassador to Australia, the Honourable Noel White, will be the guest speaker at this year’s event. Continue reading
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A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet
Eliza Dunlop’s poetry shows that as early the 1850s she was not only aware of, but actively opposed to, the ‘racially and ethnically exclusive construction of ‘Australianness’ and of the ‘native’ (that is, white Australian born)’ Continue reading
Home thoughts from abroad
Each visit home is another stage in the grieving process Continue reading
WINDHARP. Poems of Ireland since 1916
if this was all we had a thousand years from now, it would be the basis for a sound reconstruction of the political, social and economic life in Ireland in the century since 1916. Continue reading
Rarity in Australian publishing history
Colin Ryan, an Irish-language writer from Australia, makes his own of the language and gives it a unique Australian twist. Continue reading
Shorts@45
an evening of memoir writing from three of Australia’s brightest writers Continue reading
Poetry
When my Mother wielded her bow
She could make the music ring. Continue reading
Fursey’s Outrageous Escapades
As you read these two little masterpieces, you have to keep reminding yourself that they were originally published 70 years ago. Swan River Press has done a service to the reading public by re-releasing them now to be enjoyed by a new generation Continue reading
WB Yeats 150th Anniversary Commemoration
In order to re-create the atmosphere of Coole Park House, the concert will take place in the recital room of Buckleys of Dunnolly, which hosts a beautiful grand piano. Continue reading
Stories Told around the Fires of Time
one imagines that, as with all oral story-tellers, the verse tethers memory to the story’s emotional highs and lows. Continue reading
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