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Prior to presenting at the Celtic Club, Adrian will be launching ‘Belfast Noir’ a collection of short stories in November in the USA. Continue reading
Coming to terms with the Troubles: women in Northern Ireland and the Troubles Continue reading
Across the valley was a long walk for a three–year old. I was put standing on a dry stone-wall which was probably three feet high but to me seemed like a skyscraper.. Continue reading
Long before James Joyce’s brought his allusive novelistic craft to bear on the Odyssey, another Irish novelist, likewise practiced in the art of allusion, Maria Edgeworth, made extensive reference to the Homeric story Continue reading
There is a surprising wealth of information in local and world history in the reminiscences of this event and how the struggles and displacement of these women pioneers, the refugees of their day, mirror life today. Continue reading
At the top of a hill in south-west Victoria, surrounded by rolling green hills that fall away to the Southern Ocean, sits a grand old red-brick church. Continue reading
Embassy of Ireland invitation to members of the Irish Community in Victoria Continue reading
A mass to remember the dead….on 9 November Continue reading
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
The Conference was both a celebration of the centenary of the arrival of the future Archbishop of Melbourne and an effort to bring ‘New perspectives on old stories’ Continue reading
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