A fearless rebel rather than a criminal…. Continue reading
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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Anthony Penhall plays Ned
Comhaltas Monthly Instrumental Workshops
Comhaltas invite you to some workshops….. Continue reading
Brian Boru 1000th Anniversary Commemoration
The Central Victorian Irish Association Inc presents: King Brian Ború 1000th Anniversary Commemoration Recounting the life of King Brian Ború in narrative, music, poetry, story-telling and song. Sunday 18 May 2014 at 1:30pm (for 2pm start) at The Brian Ború Hotel, Cnr Chapel St & McIvor Hwy, Bendigo. Entry – Gold coin donation Call 5443 9746 or 5442 6649 or visit … Continue reading
The Settlements and Names of Dromana
Many of the residents of Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, believed that their town was named after a town in Ireland. Strictly speaking this is untrue though understandable…. Some people believed that this Dromana is named after one or the other of two towns named ‘Dromore’ in Northern Ireland – County Down or County Tyrone. This is also incorrect, though interesting. Continue reading
A mad and wonderful thing?
…the greatest challenge in the book is confronting the difference between the sniper fighting the enemy soldier, and indiscriminate bombing likely to target many innocent people. Continue reading
Remembering Seamus Heaney
Mickey. Make the silence speak before you ever open your mouth. In other words never speak to a class or make presentation until you have their complete and undivided attention. Continue reading
An Unlikely Hero – Joseph Mary Plunkett
The story of Joseph Mary Plunkett is so dramatic, so full of high courage and drama and resolve, that it should have made the best kind of biography. Continue reading
Abhaile
what path what peace lies before you Continue reading
Leaving Dublin begins a new life in print
A crowd-funding enterprise to put into permanent form David Monahan’s photographic study of post-Celtic-Tiger migrants. Continue reading
Anniversaries
There cannot be many Irish people of a particular age who have not heard of Arkle. Continue reading
