A feast of Irish film available in Sydney, but also online around Australia. A roundup from Enda Murray and team. Continue reading
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What’s On in June and beyond…
A Miscellany: Plays, Bloomsday, Christmas in July, Lughnasa Bacon and Cabbage, Talks, Music, singing, Dancing Continue reading
What’s On in May and June
Music, dancing, classes, seminar paper, festivals…. Continue reading
Vale, Geraldine Ryan Irish Dance Teacher extraordinaire
Every Irish dancer in Australia owes a debt to the indomitable teacher, Geraldine Ryan Continue reading
What’s on February 24 and beyond
Films, Races, St Pat’s Celebrations, Celtic Connections, A Book Launch & Genealogy Continue reading
Impressive New Irish Documentaries
Three New Documentary films at the Irish Film Festival, including two love songs to Dublin. Continue reading
Fintan O’Toole’s Latest – an antipodean perspective
For the marginal outsider like myself, this book explained the geopolitical realignments that occurred so quickly and unexpectedly in Ireland between 1958 and 2018. Continue reading
Ireland Crowned 2023 Grand Slam Champions
Tinteán’s resident rugby fanatic Steve Carey wraps up a highly entertaining Six Nations Championship In Dublin on St Patrick’s weekend, Ireland duly collected their fourth Grand Slam and their first completed at home, thanked the hated English for coming, got their coats on and went out for a drink. In the process they saw captain … Continue reading
What’s on in January/March 2023
Irish in Australia Research Updates In the middle of the pandemic we published an article by Trevor McClaughlin, Australia’s foremost authority on the Irish Orphans – see his blog at https://earlgreysfamineorphans.wordpress.com/author/trevo1/. We are reprinting it here below. Of course, at that time, we did not know we were in the ‘middle’ of the pandemic. While … Continue reading
Raucous, Rambunctious and Riotous
The cast of Love’s Old Sweet Songs was led by the magnificent and maleficent MC, who, in true music hall style got us all wound up and raring to go for the opening of the show musical eisteddfod – a turning point / ‘tuning fork’ in the road in Joyce’s life. Continue reading
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