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Tinteán – A Magazine for Irish Australia
Our aim is to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.
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Bridget Hopkins c1833-1915: A Galway girl goes to Bathurst and Bourke
The Old School
t wasn’t so much that I went to school, but rather that school came to me. In every single waking moment of my life school surrounded me. I never could escape from it. I breathed school air. I heard school sounds. I saw school everywhere. I felt the school pumping in my blood. How could this be? Continue reading
Award-winning Irish Films at the Sydney Film Festival
Three award-winning Irish films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival Continue reading
What’s On
Bloomsday events in Melbourne. Continue reading
From the Papers
Different items that caught our attention Continue reading
Love’s Bitter Mystery – A Covid Triumph
What did I expect from a movie that was originally written as a screen-play, cancelled three times, adapted for film, and filmed in seven days? Continue reading
‘Venerating’ and Abusing the Mothers
A moving and useful novel about historical practices that could disappear from collective memory and that need to be understood from the point of view of how they impacted generations of mothers and children. Continue reading
Between Two Hells
One hundred years ago this month, Ireland found that it had to deal with former comrades fighting and killing each other. Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Two new writers and one well established. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. Continue reading
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