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Tinteán – A Magazine for Irish Australia
Our aim is to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.
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Christmas Dinner in July: Irish Australian Support and Resource Bureau
17th Lake School of Celtic Music, Song and Dance
Induction of Christy Cooney as Legend of the Lake Continue reading
Christmas Dinner in July at the Celtic Club
A full 3 course traditional Christmas dinner will be served. Continue reading
In Search of Owen Roe: a new play by an O’Neill
A new Australian play about Irish forebears and failure. Continue reading
Four centuries of O’Neills and an unmarked grave in Perth.
Vanessa O’Neill’s play, In Search of Owen Roe O’Neill (see What’s On for details) on her great grandfather, Owen Roe O’Neill (no, not the c17 hero, but he does get a guernsey) opens at La Mama on 24 June for a two-week season. Continue reading
Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader
Using previously confidential police reports, British declassified documents and eye-witness accounts, the book establishes beyond any doubt that London colluded in the murders of more than 120 Catholic civilians in Ireland.
The Swans of Lough Erne
On a windswept rugged mountainside in South West Donegal, three Melbourne cousins recently climbed the mountain to honour their grandfather, who lost his life seventy years earlier in the crash of an RAF Sunderland flying boat, whilst embarking on a mission patrolling for U-boats in the North Atlantic. Continue reading
Waywords and Meansigns: new ways into ‘Finnegans Wake’
‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading
Dáibhí de Barra and the Scribal Tradition
Dáibhí de Barra was the scribe of an Irish manuscript prayer book which he copied in 1833 and which is now held in the State Library of Victoria (MS 10595). The prayer book contains a litany in which, unusually, the Munster saints Finbarr, Olan and Mochuda (St Carthage) are invoked. Continue reading
Unsettling Convict Narrative
It was with some trepidation that I approached this book given the title…. However, I found freshness in Tully’s writing style that took the edge off the relentless misery. Continue reading
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