Announcing Irish Classes Information session in Canberra in February Continue reading
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Irish Australia – ‘Getting more Interesting’
If you thought the old folks were exaggerating about anti-Irish and anti-Catholic prejudice in nineteenth- and much of twentieth-century Anglo-Protestant Australia, our authors have put it back on centre stage. Continue reading
Special Screening of a new film about the Great Famine
Nature of Event: A New Film about the Famine Wild Goose Lodge Trailer ‘Wild Goose Lodge’ is set in rural Ireland in 1816 and is based on a true story. It is a harrowing tale of love, betrayal, revenge and death – themes that are universal and will appeal to a global audience. Known as … Continue reading
New History of Irish Australia
A new history of Australia to be launched on 20 November at Newman. Continue reading
Eureka’s Children Dinner and Awards Night
Eureka’s Children’s annual Eureka Democracy Award Dinner Continue reading
Archbishop Goold and the Invention of Melbourne
A conference to celebrate the contribution of Archbishop Goold to Melbourne. Continue reading
International spotlight for Australia’s Irish Famine Orphan Girls
This year’s Famine Rock commemoration has the world’s eyes on Melbourne… Continue reading
More good news from Queensland
The resurgent Queensland Irish Association will hold its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21st November 2018. Continue reading
A Day with a Chapter of Ulysses
Bloomsday in Melbourne mounts a course, one day’s immersion in James Joyce’s most Irish chapter of Ulysses, Cyclops. Continue reading
Irish History Circle focusses on Leitrim in 1917-20
This talk gives a ‘grass-roots’ account of events in Co. Leitrim, a microcosm of what was happening throughout the Republic of Ireland in later years: “They didn’t like to talk about it”. Continue reading
