The rediscovery of a champion of the victims of war, of women and a campaigner against censorship in the twentieth century. Winifred Letts is honoured by the Irish Government. Continue reading
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THE LEDDINS OF LIMERICK
Early settlers of the Port Fairy area of Victoria and their family legacies.
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The Earls Didn’t Return
There’s a border in Ireland now
that began – some would say –
when O’Neill and O’Donnell
of Tyrone and Tyrconnell,
took flight from where the
blue horizon is swallowed up
by the feral Atlantic in Donega Continue reading
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Claire Keegan Makes a Bigger Splash
In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan eschews righteous anger about the Magdalen Laundry system, in favour of a strikingly new angle of vision. Continue reading
ENDA MURRAY AND THE IRISH FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PROGRAMME
2022 Irish Film Festival programme has landed. Continue reading
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Do Australian Catholic schools have an Irish history?
How the schools became divided. Continue reading
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My Book of the Year
An outstanding novel by an Australian now living in Ireland. Continue reading
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Earl Grey’s Irish Famine orphans: the Bridget Effect
Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading
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The Old School
t wasn’t so much that I went to school, but rather that school came to me. In every single waking moment of my life school surrounded me. I never could escape from it. I breathed school air. I heard school sounds. I saw school everywhere. I felt the school pumping in my blood. How could this be? Continue reading
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‘Venerating’ and Abusing the Mothers
A moving and useful novel about historical practices that could disappear from collective memory and that need to be understood from the point of view of how they impacted generations of mothers and children. Continue reading
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