Tea drinking may be associated with English culture, but it is still very much part of Irish culture too. Continue reading
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Grace Gifford: Just Ephemera? A new discovery in Sydney
A rare example of the ways Grace Gifford Plunkett sought to avoid poverty in the Civil way and the early years of the Free State. 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
Hidden Cargoes by Chris Arthur
Hidden Cargoes is a substantive work of research and creative analysis that also reads like a gentle musing on life by a favourite relative. Continue reading
Irish History Professors in Irish Universities: The Third one in our Brief Life Series. Professor G. A. Hayes-McCoy.
Composing these words brings to mind a man who, in my experience, was always kind, cautious and considerate, and one who believed that by writing, teaching and example he could make his country a more reasonable, and therefore a more tolerant, society than it had been during his boyhood and early manhood years. Continue reading
Irish Fiddle Music in Nulla Nulla Creek
A musical tradition found along the banks of the winding stream that makes up the Nulla Nulla Creek where my grandfather Billy Kyle lovingly nurtured Irish traditional music so that we too remember and indeed continue to cherish those songs and sounds today. Continue reading
Three New Irish Women Writers
One from Sligo, one from Galway, one from Dublin, three modern Irish women writers Continue reading
Summer Schools at Koroit and Bungendore
On being first-timers at Lake School, and teaching Irish at Bungendore. Continue reading
What’s On in February or March
Irish events coming up… Continue reading
RECAPTURING THE IRISH SPIRIT AT EUREKA
‘ … the aftermath of the Eureka Stockade brought this nation a major step closer to a democratic system …’ Continue reading
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