Our aim is to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.
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The rediscovery of a champion of the victims of war, of women and a campaigner against censorship in the twentieth century. Winifred Letts is honoured by the Irish Government. Continue reading
Early settlers of the Port Fairy area of Victoria and their family legacies.
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Gilsenan’s poetic method involves matching lines with a private visual vocabulary, rather like treating the novel as ‘found poetry’ pi Continue reading
Sebastian Barry explores the influences on him as a writer in a series of three lectures. Continue reading
There’s a border in Ireland now
that began – some would say –
when O’Neill and O’Donnell
of Tyrone and Tyrconnell,
took flight from where the
blue horizon is swallowed up
by the feral Atlantic in Donega Continue reading
In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan eschews righteous anger about the Magdalen Laundry system, in favour of a strikingly new angle of vision. Continue reading
A film festival, a feast of family, a Joyce-themed concert, an Irish language school, and a paper on the history of religion…. Continue reading
Covid Figures According to a report in The Independent, the counties with the highest incidence of Covid-19 were Westmeath, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Sligo, Carlow, Waterford and Donegal. Counties with the lowest rates were Dublin, Wicklow, Monaghan, Kildare, Meath, Cork and Clare. Priestless It was a new word to us here in Australia. It appears that the … Continue reading
New Irish fiction by Sheila O’Flanagan, Steve Cavanagh and James Lawless. Continue reading
Submissions Tinteán is a special interest online magazine. Submissions are peer-reviewed by an editorial group with backgrounds in education, history, Irish language, the law, literature, and writing. We are Irish-born or of Irish descent, and we seek to foster the Australian Irish heritage through Tinteán and its articles. Tinteán would not be the success it is today … Continue reading
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