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A Feature by FRAN BADER marking the centenary of the Third Home Rule Bill A centenary ago on 18 September 1914, the Third Home Rule Bill for Ireland went on the statute books in Westminster, with its implementation simultaneously postponed for a year or for the duration of WW1. At the time there was no … Continue reading
Sanctuary My mother called it Grand Central Station. Our kitchen the main platform and when we were tall enough we could glance out the half door. When clangorous clouds clashed we dived under tables. Plugged ears when pigs squealed on death row. But always ate salty bacon well into spring. We learned that slow churning … Continue reading
It’s a tale of an Australia which has disappeared – bourgeois, genteel (be-hatted and gloved), learned after its own fashion, but also full of patrician pro-communists. Continue reading
Campion’s subjects represent the gamut of being human. Continue reading
Irish and Irish-identified Australians, or Scots who might have voted ‘Yes’, will be interested to read Noel Pearson’s latest pungent Quarterly Essay for its take on the agonizingly slow process of Indigenous decolonisation. Continue reading
there could be no doubt about it, we were hearing a very upbeat, lively Irish jig. Continue reading
Nature of Event: Let’s Get Quizzical is a quiz show with canapés at PJ O’Brien’s Irish Pub. The MC is a master of quizzes and craic: Brian Gillespie. The questions will be broad-ranging, but it may be a tad advantageous to be Irish, or to know your way around matters sporting (the man is a … Continue reading
The prospect of the sale of the Celtic Club arouses strong feelings. Continue reading
The story of the Old Irish Walking app, like any good Irish story begins a few years back. Continue reading
The Vikings were the first invaders to realise the potential of the oak. Continue reading
