Irish-Australian Identity
Articles
- Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
30 September 2021 - Writing the Irish-Australian Self: Life-Writers and Irish Stereotypes, 1870-2000
This article surveys the history of Irish-Australian autobiography and memoir as a form of writing particularly well adapted to exploring the tensions and compromises of…
30 September 2021 - Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
This essay surveys the viewpoints of selected Irish-Australian writers: the anthologists Bill Wannan, Vincent Woods and Colleen Burke then Bernard O’Dowd, Brian Elliott, Tom Inglis…
30 September 2021 - Vincent Buckley, Colonialism and the Problem of Irish-Australian Identity
Perhaps no Australian writer or thinker has probed the condition of Irishness in Australia more extensively than the poet-critic Vincent Buckley (1925-88). His first memoir…
30 September 2021 - Irishness as a Literary Condition: Australia and its Irish Reading and Writing Community
This paper documents the literary origins of the notion of Irishness; why it mattered, and why it persists as a significant discourse running through Australian…
30 September 2021 - Introduction: The Uses of Irish-Australian Literature
In a famous – perhaps too famous – proclamation, the late historian Patrick O’Farrell (1933–2003) declared that the ‘distinctive Australian identity was not born in…
30 September 2021