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Irish artist Gearoid O’Dea has installed a 35 foot street art installation inspired by the Women of 1916, with the piece being unveiled on International Women’s Day. Continue reading
The part played by women in the fight for Irish Independence has not been well chronicled. We know that there were women in the GPO in 1916 and that Countess Markievicz was 2IC to Michael Mallin in St Stephen’s Green. Continue reading
It would have been tempting to write the book as a version of the history of the Abbey as a centre of patriotism, a hotbed of radicals and rebels. Continue reading
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
Bill was a born actor. He loved centre-stage, was hugely generous, and was willing to take his talents into quite recondite places…. Continue reading
Event: LFAR National Republican Constitutional Convention Dinner Date: Thursday 14th April 2016 Venue: Celtic Club – 320 Queen St, Melbourne @ 6:30pm Cost/RSVP: $50 inc Entree & Dinner or free with no dinner. Pay on night or via TryBooking Further Information:lfar.alp@gmail.com or call Daniel White on 0400945239 LFAR National Dinner 2016 (2) LFAR is proud to host our inaugural … Continue reading
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
22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference.
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Save the Dates! Bloomsday in Melbourne and the Easter Rising 1916 Centenary Commemorations Continue reading
Call for Papers for Folklore Conference in Belfast. Continue reading
