With Irish people starting to think about moving home and plenty more thinking about moving here for work, we thought we’d give them a little nudge along…
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More Utopians … New Wales in Patagonia
The Welsh experiment in nationalist utopianism…. Continue reading
Disintegrating Socialist Utopia
A FEATURE by Frances Devlin-Glass Two years ago just before Easter, I was preparing a paper on Joseph Furphy’s articles for the Bulletin for a very special mobile conference to ‘God’s Own Riverina’ (Furphy’s euphoric name for the area between the Murray and the Lachlan Rivers where he was running bullock teams to remote stations, just … Continue reading
Returning Home to West Cork
Joe is not only ‘mine host’ at Creedon’s, but also the pub’s chef, an able story-teller and willing singer and his artwork hangs in the pub’s lounge. Continue reading
An Irish jig in a foreign land
there could be no doubt about it, we were hearing a very upbeat, lively Irish jig. Continue reading
Walking Old Irish Sydney
The story of the Old Irish Walking app, like any good Irish story begins a few years back. Continue reading
Walking Old Sydney
In 2012 The Dictionary of Sydney developed a partnership with the Irish Consulate Sydney to develop new content. This project became known as Greening the Dictionary and saw eight new entries come online in 2013. These entries included St Canice’s Church, Elizabeth Bay; Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to Federation; and the surprising, Statue of Queen Victoria in Druitt Street. Continue reading
Stop Press! Alternative Anzac Day Seminar
An Alternative Anzac event at the Celtic Club TODAY. Continue reading
Poetry, Places, Stories
From early May to early June of 2013 Diane Faheytook part, with Ali Cobby Eckermann, in the Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland. This tour was funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and organised by Nell White, National Director of Australian Poetry Inc.
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Of Constance Markiewicz and dancing goddesses
Eileen Haley captures the indomitability of Constance Markiewicz in a quilt which celebrates an eventful life as a free-spirited and pro-active woman. Continue reading
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