Tinteán

Congratulations

Two new OAM recipients with connection to Tintean Continue reading →

The Irish and Australian Law

The role of Irish lawyers in colonial Australia has received regular attention over the years
but has not achieved much clarity. Continue reading →

Surely a woman could not have done this on her own. Surely a woman could not have seen what this festering tyrant was doing. Surely a woman could not have known that tyranny incubates and ﬂies across borders. Continue reading →

Cuckoon’s Nest

Working through Irish-music tune-names for an article in the 3rd edition of Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Fintan Valelly was time-travelled back to the 1800s, conjured by those melodic ‘handles’ into a heaving landscape of people, lives, places and the everyday. Continue reading →

Recalling Dorothy Day

The Pope named her with Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton as four great Americans. Continue reading →

Irish Settlers in South Australia

This author’s style is varied and warm but grounded in truth-finding and truth-telling…. This is also a handsome book. Great thought has gone into its design and format. Continue reading →

From The Papers

Short items from past four weeks. Continue reading →

Hospital Pass

Your partners are your long-time opponents, there’s a pandemic, there is noise on you backbench … and then there are the Greens. Who would want to be Taoiseach? Continue reading →

Two Irish Contributions to Australia

This impressive work tells us the story of two exceptional personalities, Curtin and Scullin, it is also, in a most profound manner, the story of the movement they nurtured, the Australian Labor movement. Continue reading →

Heroes like Finucane

Churchill is quoted as saying ‘If ever I feel a bitter feeling rising in my heart about the Irish, the hands of heroes like Finucane seem to stretch out to soothe it away.’ Continue reading →