SPEAKERS AND EVENTS HELD BY FRIENDS OF IRELAND OVER THE PAST DECADES
Note that it may not be exhaustive and we apologise if anyone has been left out.
Paul Malone - Brexit -Ireland Then and Now: An Emigrants View
Barbara Moore - Tracing Family History
Noel White - Reflections of a Departing Ambassador
Prof Francis Shannon - An Irish Academic’s life built in Australia
Night Potion and Chris McGinty Irish Music
John Kirk - Irish winemaker’s story - Clonakilla
John and Nikki Carson - Concerts at Tír Na Nóg, Wallaroo
Speakers 2012
Barry Hussey - Contemporary Irish Theatre 2012
Speakers 2014
Richard Reid and John Collard - Tribute to Seamus Heaney 2014
Kevin Sheedy - Irish links with Australian Rules Football -2014
Richard O’Brien - Memories of an Irish Ambassador 2014
National Library - Seamus Heaney Celebration 2014
Dr Richard Reid - A Decent Set of Girls, Earl Grey Scheme 2014
Speakers 2015
Jeff Kildea - A Database of Irish ANZACS- world search for Irish World War soldiers 2015
Eureka Anniversary dinners -010-2015
Brendan Smythe and Prof Tony O’Grady - Growing up Catholic in Sydney and Melbourne 2015
Prof Ronin Keating- Yeats Day 2015
FoI 30th Birthday celebration 2015
John Collard - “County Clare and Beyond” 2015
Sister Jane Keogh - Refugee advocate 2015
Nora Stewart - Easy Irish Dance 2015
Speakers 2016
Dr Margaret Betteridge - Irish links to refurbishment of The Lodge 2016
Rev David Campbell - What it means to be Irish 2016
-It is old but is it Beautiful? Peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland 2016
Graham Hartnett - A good diplomat can say No in a way that sounds like Yes 2016
Billy O’Foglhu - A Taste of Ireland 2016
Aidan Moore - 100 Years Irish Rising 2016
- Weapons of Mass Attraction – History of Irish Traditional Music 1174-1994
Speakers 2017
Catherine McGrath - Disability and employment of the disabled 2017
Irish Set Dancers - History and Symbolism of Set Dancing
St Clements Retreats, Galong - Whole Histories, Keeping Stories Alive 2016, 2017
Dr Patricia Clarke - Canberra WW1 Irish Nurses 2017
Richard Begbie - Finding Garrett Cotter 2017
Roger Ley - Irish-Australian Boxing Legend Les Darcy 2017
Irish Films at National Film and Sound Archives, Sing Street 2016 In the Name of John Hume 2017
Dr Bernadette Boss - Ned Kelly’s Mother 2017
Anne McMahon - Floating Prisons- Irish Transportation to Australia 2017?
Marion Gilmour - Iona 2017
Multicultural Festival Stall 2017, 2018
Speakers 2018
Genevieve Jacobs - How our Irishness has influenced our Australian Culture 2018
Dervla McTiernan, Irish Writer - Crime Fiction Novels 2018
Dr Pamela O’Neill -Irish Gaelic Law, Laws of Early Ireland 2018
Book sharing session 2018
Estelle Blackburn OAM Fremantle Catalpa Rescue 2018
Dr Richard Reid and Dr Jeff Brownrigg - The Chief (Eamon De Valera) Comes to Town 2018
Speakers 2019
FOI Committee - Halloween Traditions 2020, 2019
Speakers 2020
Regina Neary - Mental health in COVID times 2020
Speakers 2021
Ruth Lane Poole Exhibition Canberra Museum and Gallery Online 2021
David Smith MHR - Irish-Australian identity, the influence of popular culture and immigration. “Trying to find a place in the post-modern with the Pogues.” 2021
Breándan O’Caollai - Remembering John Hume2021
Melanie Nolan - The Australian Dictionary of Biography and Australian born Irish Women’s Stories 2021
Speakers 2022
Francis Crimmins - YWCA 2022
ANU and UC lecturers and students - Ulysees 100th Anniversary of Bloomsday 2022
