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Nobody wanted to know convicts in early British settlement of Australia and now family historians are eager to find a connection to a convict in their family tree. How times have changed. Continue reading
Yet fifty years later
Seán Ó Conaill could tell, word for word,
a story he’d heard, as a boy,
read from a journal. Continue reading
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This book by two Darwin-based journalists, is a comprehensive account of the mystery of Paddy Moriarty’s disappearance. Continue reading
A graphic life of Ernie O’Malley and a an account of the divided loyalties after the signing of the Treaty… Continue reading
More new Irish fiction reviewed by Frank O’Shea. Gay detectives, dying with dementia, campus life at Trinity, rape-crime and legal trickery. Continue reading
ISAANZ AGM The 14th ISAANZ Annual General Meeting will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 7th December 2021 at 5:00pm NZDT (Auckland),3:00pm AEDT (Melbourne), 4:00am GMT (Dublin) SECRETARY: Matthew Ryan Email: secretary [at] isaanz.org
While his comrades John Devoy, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Michael Davitt achieved international renown over decades, Cody was so shadowy that historians lost track of him after the celebrated Catalpa rescue of 1876. Continue reading
At the beginning of the Brexit negotiations, the president of the European Council, said that any proposals by the United Kingdom that would not receive a nod of approval from Dublin would be rejected in Brussels. Continue reading
For those Scottish Pattons who arrived in NI at the Plantation and remained loyal, life could be rewarding. Yet many loyalists ran afoul of monarchs who wished to assert the supremacy of their Church of Ireland Continue reading
