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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
By Trevor McClaughlin This entry was posted on April 10, 2023 by Trevor McClaughlin, in Australian-Irish history, Belfast Girls, Irish Australian History, News and tagged ‘a working man’s paradise’?, Albert Cyril Ashton, C.G.Wade, Charles Emanuel Cohen, Crime, Earl Grey ship, Julian Windeyer, Maitland Circuit Court, Mary McConell, R. v Tudor, Richard O’Connor, Thomas Ashton, William Knox Child. Bookmark the permalink. (Edit) This is a story about one of the great-grandchildren of the ‘Earl Grey Irish Famine orphans’. … Continue reading
By Jeff Kildea, first published in John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. We thank this site for permission to republish. More than three years after Boris Johnson got Brexit done with his ‘excellent’ and ‘oven-ready’ deal, his second successor Rishi Sunak may have actually baked it, but only after changing the recipe from cake to fudge. But is … Continue reading
