2025 Postgraduate Prize Winner

2025 Postgraduate Prize Winner

2025 Winner of AJIS/ISAANZ postgraduate essay prize is Ciara Maloney (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) for her essay titled "Haunting in The Beauty Queen of Leeane and The Lonesome West". The editors received a wide field of excellent essays and wish to thankย all those who entered the competition.

Great Irish Famine Commemoration

Great Irish Famine Commemoration

16 August 2025. The Great Irish Famine Commemoration will be onย Saturday 16 August at 11:00am at Hyde Park Barracks.ย  On this day we remember all those who left Ireland during the Great Irish Famine, on the long journey to Australia and other parts of the world.

Furphyโ€™s Fiction andย Bulletinย โ€˜Parsโ€™

Furphyโ€™s Fiction andย Bulletinย โ€˜Parsโ€™

9 July 2025. From his first โ€˜parsโ€™ (short contributions) for the Bulletin, Joseph Furphy's curiosity about Aboriginal ethnology and languages is continuous and subtly counter-cultural. Joseph Furphyโ€™s The Buln-Buln and the Brolga (1948) stages the meeting in Echuca between the urban authoress and the bushmen and their talk is a reminder of a frontier which by the early twentieth century was increasingly in retreat, vicious, secretive and remote.

O’Donnell Fellowship 2026

O’Donnell Fellowship 2026

Applications are open for the 2026 Oโ€™Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary's Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. The Oโ€™Donnell Fellowship is available for the period Mondayย 5ย January โ€“ Sundayย 15ย February 2026. The Fellowship, which is non-stipendary, offers: college living quarters and all meals; access to the Academic Centre building and collections; research space in the Gerry Higgins Room; access to the University of Melbourne library; $2000 for travel and other expenses. The application deadline is Friday 11 July 2025..

Circeโ€™s Carnival of Vice

Circeโ€™s Carnival of Vice

11-22 June 2025. Bloomsday in Melbourne proudly invites you toย Circeโ€™s Carnival of Vice,ย a brand new play set in Monto, Dublin's infamous brothel district, razed by the Free State exactly a century ago. Do you dare join us to descend into James Joyceโ€™s fevered dreamscape?

Ballymurphy Massacre Campaign

Ballymurphy Massacre Campaign

28 May 2025. The Ballymurphy Massacre is the name given to the killing of eleven civilians by the British Army on 9-11 August 1971 in Belfast, during the early years of the Troubles conflict. This presentation examines the relationship of the contemporary family led campaign to Springhill Community Houseโ€™s decades old legacy as a participatory, community-based organisation in Ballymurphy.

Ireland Will Be Free

Ireland Will Be Free

7 May 2025. Special screening of the silent film "Ireland Will Be Free" at The Wild Geese. Historian and author Dr Val Noone will also speak about the significance of the film. Ireland Will Be Freeย is an amazing silent film of St Patrickโ€™s Day 1920 in Melbourne. It was filmed by the famous Bert Cross and sponsored by Archbishop Daniel Mannix and entrepreneur John Wren.

Bi-lingual poetry reading

Bi-lingual poetry reading

22 April 2025. Special bilingual poetry readingย with prize winning author รine Nรญ Ghlinn in the Celtic Club's Members Bar at the Wild Geese Hotel, Brunswick. รine Nรญ Ghlinnย is a lecturer, childrenโ€™s writer, poet and journalist. Born in County Tipperary, she was Laureate na nร“g/Childrenโ€™s Poet Laureate, 2020-2023, the first to write exclusively in Irish. She has written 39 books, including eight collections of poetry for adults and 23 for teenagers and young readers.

In a minority language

In a minority language

16 April 2025. During 2020-2023ย An Bosca Leabharlainne (The Library Box) delivered over 70,000 specially selected books to 1831 primary schools throughout Ireland, South and North. This was the flagship project ofย รineย Nรญ Ghlinn while she wasย Laureate na nร“g/Childrenโ€™s Poet Laureate.ย รineย Nรญ Ghlinn will discuss the challenges involved in this effort to find readers in a minority language โ€“ for many pupils Irish is a subject they have to do โ€“ and she will report on the success of this campaign.

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care

31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medical landscape, we invite scholars and community members to use the vantage point of this new ecosystem โ€“ viral, social, political, economic, environmental โ€“ to consider what health, wellness and care mean for Ireland and Irish communities worldwide.