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The Catalpa escape involved the rescue of six men serving life sentences. All were former British soldiers who had taken the Fenian oath. Continue reading
A miscellany of news items from the press. Continue reading
When the evidence is looked at objectively, the vast majority of the colonial Irish, regardless of religious affiliation and county of origin, were respectable, law abiding people, neither rebels nor disaffected peasants. They arrived in Australia full of optimism and expected a better life. Continue reading
The Sunburnt Symposium is now part of the Australian daonscoileanna, the summer and winter Irish language intensives and also featured in some Australasian Irish Studies conferences. Continue reading
Irish Language classes in Sydney, and history and archeology in Penrith and the Blue Mountains. Continue reading
A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Continue reading
Readings, music, Irish literature more generally, and eating and drinking – Bloomsday at the Queensland Irish Association in Brisbane. Continue reading
They remembered the Black and Tans. Twenty years later, they refused to be conscripted into the British army a world away. Continue reading
Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
Reports from the Irish Film Festival, Melbourne Continue reading
