Keywords: Irish In Australia
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 22 July 2009
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For a while there, McCourt was 'mick of the moment', except in his native Limerick where they wanted to strangle him. Teacher Man, his best book, captures what it is to be the lonely figure with only cunning and a stick of chalk to protect you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Inside this darkened church there are whispers ... a clutter of saints who cross themselves in stony silence .. Time and time again, Christ's palms do not heal.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shane Howard with Regina Lane
- 02 July 2009
15 Comments
Five generations ago, rural Irish migrants built and paid for St Brigid's church at Crossley in south-west Victoria. Today, the people of Crossley and Killarney are fighting to save the gathering place from private ownership.
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RELIGION
I am shocked and angered by the actions of fellow religious Brothers detailed in the Ryan Report. There were basic things lacking in our training that could have led to a very warped way of looking at oneself and the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 05 June 2009
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The policy of assimilation made an inhumane idea
more important than human beings. Redfern Pastor Bill Simon recovered from his own oppression under Government policies. It's
shameful that a miracle was required.
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RELIGION
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 June 2009
24 Comments
After a lifetime in schools run by
religious orders, I am appalled to think abuse against children in institutions in Ireland was 'endemic'. I try to persuade myself that 'Brendan', the saintliest man I ever knew, cancels out the bad eggs.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 01 June 2009
24 Comments
Because we lived so long with a policy of assimilation, our ingrained
racism takes time to shake. We need public policy that
reasserts the principles of multiculturalism. Instead our
Prime Minister is caught out making an ethnic jibe.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 May 2009
15 Comments
News of the Irish child abuse report prompted a call for scrutiny of Irish priests now based in Australia. A more far-reaching implication is the need to look at the state of regulations governing care in our entire not-for-profit sector.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 11 May 2009
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While it is inherently racist for a person to claim membership of the
best race, it is no bad thing for a religious person to claim
membership of the one true religion. That is what religious people do.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roger Trowbridge
- 25 March 2009
2 Comments
Dennis was the neighbourhood character. Full of good humour, he had a capacity for quipping his way through life — no one out-quipped Dennis. One day Dennis went to the Grand Prix. That evening he did not come home.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 17 March 2009
5 Comments
St Patrick holds the Irish in a powerful emotional thrall. Parades all over the world honour the man who brought Christianity to Ireland. This week in Northern Ireland, saintly ghosts of the past have been called upon to bless murder.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
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The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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