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Is this increased interest resonant of the current Australian focus on Indigenous recognition? Or is it a reflection of more attention to the topic of Irish Travellers in the Irish education curriculum? Continue reading
John Boyne returns to his earlier Striped Pyjamas book and we meet Shane McGowan’s young sister. Continue reading
Celtic Studies Conference, Sydney September 25-27, 2023 The Tenth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will be hosted by the Celtic Language Teaching and Research, School of Art, Communications and English, The University of Sydney in person and online. Online sessions will take place in the early evening Sydney time, to facilitate internationalparticipation, and will be … Continue reading
But as books must and will be produced to meet the demand, it is now both timely and fair to ask what kind of ‘Irish history’ are we going to have? As a race, we have an extraordinary habit of make-believe. Continue reading
My students were full of energy, fun-loving and were certainly not vindictive or in any way mean, but they loved playing pranks… Continue reading
Is there bias in dictionary compiling? Ultimately, yes. Continue reading
So much has been said, in media all over the world, interviews, music played and replayed, so many tributes. For me? the shattering realization, she’s gone. Continue reading
The bilingual poem below was commissioned as part of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship 2022 Continue reading
I read The Banshees of Inisherin as an allegory of this vicious civil conflict, told in a loose but recognisable metaphor of the breakdown of a once close friendship. Continue reading
The Ship Wife examines the cruel system of convictism, the born-to-rule assumptions of Empire and its subjugation by violence of its first (Ireland) and a subsequent colony (Australia), and the injustices of a marriage system that robbed women of rights. Continue reading
