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Every Irish dancer in Australia owes a debt to the indomitable teacher, Geraldine Ryan Continue reading
The 2023 Irish Famine Orphan Girls Commemoration event in Melbourne celebrated a dualanniversary this year – 175 years since the first Earl Grey Scheme ship arrived with Irishorphan girls in 1848, and 25 years since the Famine Rock standing stone memorial to thevictims of the Great Hunger was erected in Williamstown. Mr Daniel Lowe, Deputy … Continue reading
What was once an ethnically homogeneous country has turned into a multicultural society in the space of less than 30 years Continue reading
Prose poetry offers freedom from structure, from line markings, while retaining rhythm, imagery and emotional layering. Bilingual prose poetry reveals yet another dimension: word choice that can challenge and provoke. That can make you question your assumptions as you read and reread. Continue reading
Four new Irish novels, two with connections with Australia Continue reading
Films, Races, St Pat’s Celebrations, Celtic Connections, A Book Launch & Genealogy Continue reading
Greetings, readers, and a very happy New Year. May 2024 and its ‘extra’ day be successful for you and your family. With the exception of the first article after this introduction, your editors are taking a rest from publishing new material this month, but we assure you that we will be back in February. We … Continue reading
By Frank O’Shea Any year that provides new books by Sebastian Barry, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor and Colm Tóibín has to have been a good one for readers. In the year just finished, we have met all of those with the exception of Tóibín whose book will be reviewed in these pages in the next … Continue reading
by Dymphna Lonergan The Lillipilly berries are falling on my new SUV’, said the next-door neighbour just after she opened the door. No ‘Hello’, or ‘How are you,’ or even ‘G’day’. But she was not in Ireland now. She was in Australia, South Australia. And she has been here for over forty years. She followed … Continue reading
by Frances Devlin-Glass Those who have been following Bloomsday for a very long time may remember the palpable thrill of seeing Exiles for the first time in a humble moved reading at Gasworks Theatre (in South Melbourne) twenty years ago in 2003. I was in Japan and unhappily missed it. The audience reported a frisson resembling electricity and surprise … Continue reading
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