You won’t have any trouble getting into the swing of things, because the killings and mayhem start early…. Continue reading
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Arguing for a living
Essays on modern Irish life by an Irish controversialist, John Waters Continue reading
The Trial of Ned Kelly Staged
Nature of Event: Barry Versus Kelly – The tragic story of Australia’s folk hero, Ned Kelly and the judge who hanged him. A musical drama by Felix Meagher (with additional music by Lou Hesterman and Cyril Moran) about the trial and execution of Ned Kelly in November 1880. about the Trial of Ned Kelly, the classic confrontation between … Continue reading
The ‘Best Choir in the Anglosphere’
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
A Town in Print
A fake new party in Listowel: Tom Doodle promised the citizens that he would open a factory for shaving the hair off gooseberries Continue reading
Radio Days
The wireless in our house in Leitrim in 1941 sat on a high shelf, away from little hands, in the kitchen. It had two batteries, one dry and one wet. Continue reading
St Patrick’s Day Badges
The badges are a tangible link with the past and are unique to South Australia. Continue reading
Barry V Kelly
Ned Kelly in Emerald. Continue reading
The Warwick Irish Before the Egg, or John McEniery’s Shillelagh
The Irish stamp on Warwick is inescapable: its heritage-listed, gothic-revival sandstone edifices, the Cloisters (formerly Our Lady of the Assumption Convent) and St Mary’s Catholic Church dominate the townscape. Continue reading
Telling War Stories through Postage Stamps
The An Post images tell the story of reconciliation: that both sides suffered as a consequence of war and also the 1916 rising. Continue reading
