Articles

 

2024


“The Belfast Good Friday Agreement – a model for Palestine?”, Pearls and Irritations, 22 April 2024


“More Than Mannix: Irish-Australian Women Who Helped Defeat Conscription in WW1” in Susan Arthure, et al (eds), Irish Women in the Antipodes Foregrounded, Wakefield Press, Mile End (S. Aust), 2024, pp. 258-273

“It’s Time: Leo Varadkar Resigns as Taoiseach”, Tinteán, 10 April 2024

“Stormont restored – Sinn Féin to appoint Northern Ireland’s first minister”, Pearls and Irritations, 4 February 2024

2023

“Blast from our Sectarian Past”, Pearls and Irritations, 16 April 2023


“The Windsor framework: oven-ready fudge”, Pearls and Irritations, 4 March 2023


“The never-ending Brexit story – an end perhaps?”, Pearls and Irritations, 1 March 2023

2022


Review of Julian Casey, et al, Sub Tuum Praesidium: Marist Brothers in Australia 1872-2022 (Marist Brothers Australia, Mascot, NSW, 2022) in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 108, Pt 2, December 2022, pp. 250-251


Who won the elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly?”, Pearls and Irritations, 8 June 2022


“Stalemate at Stormont – elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly”, Pearls and Irritations, 30 April 2022


“Living with Covid: lessons from the Spanish Flu pandemic”, Pearls and Irritations, 17 January 2022

2021


Bumbling Boris’ Brexit bombast, a bitter brew for Northern Ireland”, Pearls and Irritations, 21 June 2021


“Hugh Mahon of Benburb, Ringwood”, A talk given to the Ringwood & District Historical Society, Victoria, 12 May 2021


“Northern Ireland deja vu: They’re burning buses again”, Pearls and Irritations, 16 April 2021


“Ending the Revolutions”, An address to the INA’s Easter Rising Commemoration at the 1798 Monument at Waverley Cemetery on Easter Sunday 2021

Ireland and Brexit: Time to NIxit? – Part 1: A Question of Identity”, Pearls and Irritations, 8 January 2021

Ireland and Brexit: Time to NIxit? – Part 2: The Economy, Stupid”, Pearls and Irritations, 9 January 2021

2020


“Ireland and Brexit: the Good News”, Pearls and Irritations, 30 December 2020

“Global Lives: Hugh Mahon”, Century Ireland, 2020

“November 11 – ‘the other dismissal’: the expulsion of Hugh Mahon from federal parliament”, Pearls and Irritations, 11 November 2020

“Susan Ryan: a daughter of St Brigid”, Pearls and Irritations, 2 October 2020

“Like Banquo’s Ghost: Hugh Mahon and the Eden-Monaro by-election”, Pearls and Irritations, 2 July 2020

“How many Australians died of Spanish Flu? Take your pick”, Pearls and Irritations, 29 May 2020

“Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu’s clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia”, The Conversation, 22 May 2020


“Lessons to be learned from the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919 – Part 1”, Pearls and Irritations, 8 May 2020


“Lessons to be learned from the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919 – Part 2”, Pearls and Irritations, 11 May 2020

2019


“An Unfortunate Life: Rose Flemming, Irish Famine Orphan”, Tinteán, 7 September 2019

2018


Launch of Philip Lecane’s Women and Children of the RMS Leinster: Restored to History (Elm Books, Dublin, 2018) at the Dún Laoghaire Library on 9 October 2018

“Ireland Will Be Free: Fanning the Flames of Sectarianism in Australia, 1920-21, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 18, 2018, pp. 130-155

2017


“Stories from the Visitors Book of the Irish Legation to Australia”, Canberra District Historical Society, Embassy of Ireland, Canberra, 12 July 2017

Killurin to Kalgoorlie: the making of Hugh Mahon, Tinteán, 6 July 2017

2016

2015

Kildea - Irish Anzacs Project (2015)
“The Irish Anzacs Project”, Familia, No. 31, 2015, pp. 33-52
Kildea - Did the Leinsters Flee at Chunuk Bair? (2015)
“Did the Leinsters flee at Chunuk Bair”, Reveille Magazine, Autumn 2015, pp. 28-30
Kildea - The Irish at Gallipoli (2015)
“The Irish at Gallipoli”, History Ireland, July-August 2015, pp. 36-39

2014

The Irish at Gallipoli
“The Irish at Gallipoli” – a series of six podcasts recorded for UCD’s History Hub (December 2014) – Text of the Podcasts.To listen to the podcasts go to the History Hub website.
Shirkers and Sinn Feiners
“Shirkers and Sinn Feiners: the Australian Irish and the First World War”, A paper given at the symposium: Emergent Nations: Australia and Ireland in the First World War at University College Dublin on 17 October 2014
Kildea - Commemoration of the First World War in Australia (2014)
“Commemoration of the First World War in Australia”, A paper presented at the Parnell Summer School, Avondale House, Rathdrum, County Wicklow, 14 August 2014
Anzac Day Address

Anzac Day Address at Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin on 25 April 2014

2013

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“The Redmond Brothers’ Australian Tour 1883: A Narrative Account” (May 2013)
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“Irish Anzacs: the contribution of the Australian Irish to the Anzac Tradition”, A paper given at the Anzac Day commemoration at Parliament House, Sydney on 1 May 2013

2012

St Patrick’s Day in Sydney

“Celebrating St Patrick’s Day in Sydney: the 19th Century, Dictionary of Sydney” (November 2012)

For published version see The Dictionary of Sydney

2011

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“Remembering Hugh Mahon”, Recorder, Issue 271, October 2011, pp. 2-4

2010

2008

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“Who Fears to Speak of ’14-’18: Remembrance of World War I in Ireland and Australia” in Laurence M. Geary and Andrew J. McCarthy, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: History, Politics and Culture, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2008, pp. 240-256

2007

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“Paranoia and Prejudice: Billy Hughes and the Irish Question 1916-1922” in Jeff Brownrigg, Cheryl Mongan, Richard Reid (eds), Echoes of Irish Australia: Rebellion to Republic, St. Clement’s Retreat and Conference Centre, Galong, N.S.W., 2007, pp. 155-166

2006

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“Easter rising”, Wartime, Issue 36, October 2006, pp. 30-31

“Anzacs and Ireland: Some Aspects of the Relationship between Australian Soldiers and Ireland during the First World War”, 14th Annual Shamrock in the Bush Conference, 3-6 August 2006
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Aboriginal Land Rights and the Pope’s Alice Springs Address: A Personal Reflection”, Australasian Catholic Record, v. 83 no. 3 July 2006, pp. 286-297
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Where Crows Gather: The Sister Liguori Affair 1920-21”, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, v.27, 2006, p.31

2005

2004

2003

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“Called to arms: Australian soldiers in the Easter Rising 1916”, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, No. 39, October 2003

2002

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“Australian Catholics and conscription in the Great War”, Journal of Religious History, v.26, no.3, Oct 2002, pp. 298-313
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“Troubled times: An Overview of the History of the Catholic Federation of New South Wales”, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, v.23, 2002, pp. 9-22
Sectarianism Politics Catholics Thumbnail
“Sectarianism, Politics and Australia’s Catholics”, Sydney Papers, v.14, no.3, Winter 2002, pp. 160-167

1998

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“Archbishop Kelly and the Quarantine Station incident of 1918”, Australasian Catholic Record, v.75 no.3 July 1998, pp. 326-334

Native Title – A Simple Guide 1998

Review of Bryan Horrigan and Simon Young (eds), Commercial Implications of Native Title (Federation Press, Sydney, 1997), Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, Vol. 9, December 1998, pp. 340-341