If you thought the old folks were exaggerating about anti-Irish and anti-Catholic prejudice in nineteenth- and much of twentieth-century Anglo-Protestant Australia, our authors have put it back on centre stage. Continue reading
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Irish-Australians call ourselves Irish Catholics, which is true culturally but our spiritual formation was not specifically Irish, but continental Catholicism. Continue reading
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
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A fake new party in Listowel: Tom Doodle promised the citizens that he would open a factory for shaving the hair off gooseberries Continue reading
Some items from the news – Brexit, Roddy Doyle, Pat Spillane, Bertie Aherne, Mark O’Connor…. Continue reading
Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage is the best remedy for a bad mood or a feeling that life is going too fast Continue reading
The Scoil Gheimhridh Sydney 2019 is a Winter Irish Language School – a long weekend of Irish language and craic. Come and improve your Irish language skills. Continue reading
December 9-12, 2019, Adelaide, South Australia. The 24th Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand conference (ISAANZ) will be held December 9-12, 2019, in Adelaide, South Australia. The theme of the conference is Foregrounding Irish Women : the Antipodes and beyond Call for Abstracts (250 words by May 31) The Antipodes, the opposite, figuratively, geographically, metaphorically. We … Continue reading
Morgan’s book, The Mannix Era, is richly personal. It is written with considerable charm and an acerbic wit. But to read it in 2019 is to be overwhelmed by its masculinist perspective. Continue reading
The wireless in our house in Leitrim in 1941 sat on a high shelf, away from little hands, in the kitchen. It had two batteries, one dry and one wet. Continue reading
