The 2026 volume of the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies will be a special issue honouring the life and career of Elizabeth Malcom who died on 19 May this year. It will include an obituary in which the editors of the journal record her massive contribution to Irish Studies and to related activities, as well as a bibliography of her extensive publications. Also included in this issue will be Elizabeth’s scholarly article on Anna Maria Bunn, Australia’s first woman novelist, published here for the first time.
Also in this issue will be the following:
- ‘Olivia Mary Knight/Hope-Connolly, Writer: Remembered in Ireland, Forgotten in Australia?’ by Rodney Sullivan and Robin Sullivan
- ‘Tipperary Boys, Red Ribbons and the Eureka Stockade’ by Constantin Torve
- ‘The Irish Language and its Speakers in Colonial Australia: Evidence from the Courts’ by Brian Ó Conchubhair and Val Noone
- ‘James Joyce and the new Sexology’ by Manuela Hrasky
- Reviews of recently published books
Members are advised that the editors and ISAANZ envisage publishing the journal solely online given the viability issues of print editions, and to bring our work to a wider audience. If this is successful volume 26 will be the last hard-copy issue.
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