Irish-Australian Literature
Articles
- Irish Protestant Colonialism and Educational Ideology in Australia:** *Hannah Boyd’s *Letters on Education (1848)
The transnational movement between Ireland and Australia of school periodicals, pedagogical ideas and educational theories are writ large in histories of colonial education in Australia…
30 September 2021 - Irish-Australian Literature: Ghosts, Genealogy, Tradition
Opening with Christos Tsiolkas’s critique of multiculturalism, this essay considers the theory and practice of Irish-Australian literature in relation to questions of ethnicity and transnationalism…
30 September 2021 - 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 - ‘Ourselves Alone’? Encounters Between the Irish Literary Revival and Australian Settler-Modernisms, ca. 1913–1919
This essay examines intellectual exchanges between early twentieth-century Australian literary nationalists and the Irish literary revival, with attention to the transnational and imperial differences in…
30 September 2021 - Displaced Homelands in Gerald Murnane’s Inland
Gerald Murnane is the pre-eminent chronicler of Irish-Australian Catholic male youth: its spiritual curiosity, onanistic fantasies and inevitable guilt, and the irresistible attraction to the…
30 September 2021 - Irish Republicanism and the Colonial Australian Bushranger Narrative
This article examines a range of colonial Australian Irish bushranger narratives in terms of their investments in revolutionary republicanism arguing that these become increasingly contested…
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 - Antipodal Ireland and Tasmanian Underworlds: John Mitchel and William Moore Ferrar
The Central Highlands of Tasmania is an unlikely antipodes of Irish writing, but it is a region that has complex representations by exiled and immigrant…
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 - Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal Writing
This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer…
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…
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Contributors
- Mark Byron
- Patrick Buckridge
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- Paul Giles
- Ken Gelder
- Anne Jamison
- Philip Mead
- Ronan McDonald
- Kevin Molloy
- Ronan McDonald
- Val Noone
- Maggie Nolan
- Maggie Nolan
- Rachael Weaver
- Jimmy H. Yan