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Join the conversation with writer, editor and historian Dr Mary O’Connell as she unpacks her new novel The Country of Our Dreams. About this event
Join our conversation with writer, editor and historian Dr Mary O’Connell as we delve into the themes and events featured in her latest novel The Country of Our Dreams set in 19th Century Ireland and 21st Century Australia. Tom Keneally (Shindler’s List) describes it as a skilfully told novel, Stephanie Dowrick says ‘
Mary has the finest gifts of the diaspora Irish: passion, intelligence, humour and rebellion’.
About the author: Dr Mary O’Connell is a Taranaki born, Sydney based writer, editor, historian and community arts organiser, with particular interest in matters of spirit.Mary is a happy member of the Randwick Community Organic Garden , a proud member of the Australian Women’s History Network, the Irish Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand (ISAANZ, and the
Arts-Matter Presents a Conversation with Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Angela Tiatia
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Arts-Matter, the new Sydney-based cultural programming platform co-founded by Michelle Grey and Susan Armstrong, recently hosted a conversation with multi-disciplinary artists Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Angela Tiatia (both represented by Sullivan & Strumph) – currently on view at the Art Gallery of NSW until the end of Feb.
Tiatia’s work explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Also drawn to narratives that encompass similar socio-political themes, Nithiyendran creates rough-edged, vibrant, new-age sculptural idols. He experiments with form and scale in the context of figurative forms to explore politics of sex, the monument, gende
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Donegal man named President of Irish Australian Chamber
THE newly elected President of the Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce is Dungloe man David Greene.
A qualified solicitor, Mr Greene (35) works as a political advisor for the Minister for Transport and Main Roads in the Queensland State Government.
Speaking to the Donegal News from his Brisbane home this week, Mr Greene admitted that many Chamber members were heartbroken at the current Covid-19 situation in Ireland.
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“There is a level of consensus among Irish Australians that the response to Covid-19 in Ireland has been mishandled from the start, and given that Ireland, like Australia, is an island nation, the worst impacts could have been avoided or at least minimized,” he said.