Our aim is to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.
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October is exciting in Melbourne. Steve Carey asks if Joyce is dead. The Irish Film Festival lands. There’s Halloween at Comhaltas and the Celtic Club, and much more. Continue reading
An Irish-Australian story told in tribute Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, ‘High King of Irish Broadcasting’, and a GAA/Australian Football League connection. Continue reading
It was the case, however, that the only crime of those arrested may have been to support the aims of the Land League but, in the eyes of the authorities, this amounted to conspiracy. Continue reading
They were recorded buying condoms in a Belfast chemist shop. These fearless women gave hope and courage to ordinary women who were only coming into awareness about how their reproductive rights had become the property of male dominated establishments, not just in Ireland. Continue reading
This now slightly derogatory generic name for an Australian female was first applied to Irish women who appeared in Australian courts. Continue reading
Evelyn Conlon, novelist, elected member of Aosdána, explores the relationship between fiction and history, in relation to her own fiction.
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A film review of Kneecap by Isla Sutherland Kneecap, Screen playwright and Director, Rich Peppiat, Starring Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Cinematography by Ryan Kernaghan, Distribution by Wildcard [1](Ireland) Curzon Film (United Kingdom), 2024. Kneecap explores Northern Irish identity and what it means to be part of the ‘ceasefire generation’ amidst … Continue reading
Bilingual poems afford us the opportunity to appreciate both languages. What is most appreciated is the effort taken by these poets to make the English translations poems in their own right. This means that even if you do not read Irish, you can appreciate the themes, thoughts and imagery in this collection. Continue reading
A book about Tory Island’s history and mythology directed at the younger reader as well as the curious outsider. Continue reading
Dominating Hagstone is Rathglas, a colony of ‘nun’-like women, home to refugees from the violence that is typically visited on some women in the modern world. Continue reading
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