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Homesickness was a wound but our dear children
in time helped us better relate to it all here, Continue reading
As Fallon tells it, MacBride’s role in the Easter Rising as second-in-command to Thomas MacDonagh at Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, was almost accidental. He wasn’t a member of the Irish Volunteers and had supposedly come into Dublin to meet one of his brothers. Continue reading
Ireland, it has been said (perhaps a little too often), was once the site of extensive woodland, with its destruction attributed to the depredations of invaders, leaving a national treasure despoiled. On this narrative Nigel Everett casts a pleasingly sceptical eye. Continue reading
‘I now believe that the spiritual life is deeply political’ p.175.
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perhaps the biggest contrast is in the personality of the two central characters, hinted in the title that each chose for his book. Continue reading
Celebrating Irish and Irish-Australian women Continue reading
There is a rich history of activism in the Australian Labour movement by Irish-Australian women’. Continue reading
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.’ Continue reading
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one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. Continue reading
