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The resurgent Queensland Irish Association will hold its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21st November 2018. Continue reading
An Australian composes music for Famine-era poems at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Continue reading
The Irish have gone back to how they were before the GFC, except that the country seems to have a better appreciation of what is meant by paying your way. Continue reading
How different emigration is in the second decade of the 21st century Continue reading
Keane is particularly well qualified as the teller of the story of the War of Independence and the Civil War in Ireland. He worked for many years as a reporter in areas of war, had close family who were active, and spent five years as a reporter in Belfast reporting on the Troubles there for the BBC. Continue reading
His greatest strength is indubitably his capacity to create a page turning narrative out of both the mundane and exotic. Continue reading
Kilkenny in Times of Revolution 1900 – 1923 is replete with anecdote and observation. Continue reading
Oscar was the son of two immense personalities…. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Melbourne mounts a course, one day’s immersion in James Joyce’s most Irish chapter of Ulysses, Cyclops. Continue reading
A statue and a book to tell the story of the girls who left Mayo in the Great Famine to come to Australia. Continue reading
