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The Battle for Hearts and Minds'Down Under': The Media and Gerry Adams' 1999 Visit to Australia.
 Simon Adams
University of Notre Dame Australia



‘British Security Policy in Ireland, 1920-1921: A Desperate Attempt by the Crown to Maintain Anglo-Irish Unity by Force’
John Ainsworth
Queensland University of Technology


'Spirituality in the Workplace: Celtic Connections'
Nancy Ault
Murdoch University


'FDI, Cost Competitiveness and the Turnaround in the Irish Economy'
Frank Barry 

'Clemency and Compensation: the treatment of defeated rebels and Suffering Loyalists in the passing of the Act of Union'
Tom Bartlett
University College Dublin


'White Woman Dreaming: Union of Spirit'
Rosemary Beaumont
University of Western Sydney


'Ag Coimead an Teanga Beo'  (Keeping the language alive).
Jill Blee


'Where Did The Original Irish Come From?'
Denis Bratton


'Isaac Butt and the Politics of Accommodation'
Philip Bull
La Trobe University,


'To those who once belonged'
Mary A. Burston
Victoria University of Technology


'John Redmond in Australia'
Malcolm Campbell
University of Auckland


'Kilmainham—The Infamous "Treaty" Reconsidered'
Ian Chambers


'The Scattered Re-Gathered'
Jean Chetkovich
University of Western Australia


'Missionaries and Empire'
Dermot Clancy
Victoria University of Technology


‘Rosa Praed’s Irish Connections'
Patricia Clarke


'A Strange Mixture of Caring and Corruption': Residential care in traditional church orphanages during their last phase, 1940s to 1960s'
Barry M Coldrey


'Resolving Dualities?  Nationalism and the Recognition of the Other in Northern Irish Writing'
Brian Cosgrove
National University of Ireland, Maynooth


'The Toga'd Race: The Anglo-Irish, education and the Australian colonies'
Dayan Goodsir Cullen.


'The Paradox Of Paddy Lynch'
Danny Cusack
Murdoch University


'Seamus Heaney's Religious "Ghost Life": The Medieval Redress'
Duc Dau
University of Western Asutralia


'Visceral Music': Shifting Perspectives on Ulster Violence in the Novels of Bernard MacLaverty
Frances Devlin-Glass
Deakin University


'Episcopal Authority versus Canonical Autonomy of Religious Orders
Finbarr Donovan


'Rural revitalisation in Ireland: lessons for Australia’s regions'
John Duff and Matthew Tonts
Edith Cowan University


'Redcoat Rebels: Irish Rebel Prisoners and the British Army in the West Indies, 1798-1806'
Michael Durey
Murdoch University

'Virgin Mothers, Bad Girls and Murdered Babies: Parables Of Power'
Chris Eipper


'C.Y. O’Connor: Irish Influences and Formative Years'.
Tony Evans


"United We Stand, Divided We Fall":  The Crusade of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1911-1922
Rachel Finley-Bowman


'"Mr. Dowling Never Married":The Act of Union and the Gendering of Nations'
Tadhg Foley


'Demographic aspects of Sydney’s Irish communities, 1855-1900'
D J Gleeson


'Tom Ronan: A Neglected Irish-Australian Writer'
Don Grant


‘Fragile Implacement: The Irish "nomad" as diasporic spectator.’
Helena Grehan
Murdoch University


'James Joyce and the Australian kunstleroman'
Paul Genoni
Curtin University of Technology


'Fashionable Minds: Oscar Wilde and the Late Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer'
Stephanie Green,
Department of English, UWA


'Another sort of smith: literary and linguistic insights into the past reputation of Tinkers and present realities of Irish Travellers'
Chris Griffin


'The fourth R: reading, writing, ‘rithmetic and religion. Irish teachers in National schools—Queensland in the 1860s'.
Jennifer Harrison


‘The test of night: a study of the literary encounter between Vincent Buckley and Thomas Kinsella’
Philip Harvey


'"The nation which eludes me": Ireland in the Poetry of Eavan Boland'
Dennis Haskell
The University of Western Australia


'Irish Settlers Beyond The Tiers—Mount Barker 1836-1886'
Ann Herraman
Flinders University


'Frank Hardy's Fiction: Yarn-spinning, Libel and Irish Folkloric Culture'
Jenny Hocking
Monash University


'New Perspectives on the War of Independence'
Michael Hopkinson
University of Stirling


'The Irish In Dampierland: The Pioneer Nuns Of St. John Of God; Exiles In The Wilderness'.
Pat Jacobs


'Irish Patriot John Boyle O'Reilly (1884-1890): Poet and Folk Hero of Western Australia'
Conor Johnston


'Bishop Doyle's Contribution to Education and the Cultural Development of North-Eastern New South Wales'
Eileen Kelly
Presentation Convent


‘The Silence of the Tongues, The Clamour for Souls’
Marilyn Kelly
National University of Ireland, Galway


'Young Ireland and 1849'
Brendan Kiely


‘The Celtic Revival in Australia’
Helen Kinloch
University of Ballarat


'The Irish language and Robbery Under Arms'
Dymphna Lonergan


'The terrible knowledge that she was going to go': Refiguring history, memory and identity in Colm Tóibínís The Heather Blazing
Andrew Lynch
University of Western Australia


'Irish Convicts—Captain Richard Brooks and Irish Convict Transportation'
Christine Maher

'The Irish in the NSW Federal Convention election of 1897'
Patrick McCormack


'Notes on the Wrong Queries in Anthropology: A. C. Haddon and the Blind Alley Early Irish Ethnography'
Edward M McDonald


'The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland International Strategic Plan'
Greg MacDonald


‘The Celtic Tiger and the Irish Economists: Predicting the Tiger in Retrospect and Prospect’
Terry McDonough


'They Came Here Too'
Perry McIntyre


'Ultramontanism and the Catholic Education System in Western Australia'
Eugene McKenna
Murdoch University


'The compensation schedule for bloodshed in medieval Irish'
Neil McLeod
Murdoch University


'Richard Edward O’Connor And The Making Of The Commonwealth Of Australia'
Frank Mines


'The Celtic Twilight in Australia'
Frank Molloy
 Charles Sturt University


'The Other Rebellion — The relationship between Clergymen and Teachers in Roman Catholic Schools on the Ballarat Goldfield
(1853—1862)'
Keith Moore
Queensland University of Technology


‘NOW SO HAPPILY UNITED’ Robert Torrens and the Rhetoric of Union
Peter Moore

'FR. J.J. Malone, Marion Miller Knowles and Austral Light'
 Patrick Morgan



'The Irish-language journalistic efforts of the Irish diaspora in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'
Dorothy Ní Uigín
National University of Ireland


Australian Irish in the 1890s migration
from Victoria to WA
 Val Noone


'Irish Australia, Irish Music: A Valediction To Vision'
John O’Carroll
University of Western Sydney


'From Petals to Professionals. Women and Educational Change in Ireland and Australia.'
Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra


‘The Balance Of Empire: Accounting In Ireland And Australia’
 Ciarán ÓhÓgartaigh
Dublin City University Business School


'The last dying struggle': The United Irishmen between the Rebellion of 1798 and the Rising of 1803'
Ruan O'Donnell


'Education in Gaelic-speaking Ireland, 1904-1922: The case of the Bilingual Programme of Instruction'
Tom O'Donoghue
University of Western Australia


'Doing Things With Words: Ireland's Madness?'
Timothy O'Leary
University of Wollongong


'Irish influences on the ALP (WA Branch) 1899-1916'
 Bobbie Oliver
Curtin University


'Australia’s Irish Heritage:  The need for organization'
Joe O'Sullivan
Australian-Irish Heritage Association


'Forgotten Man: John Waters Kirwan and the Fight for Federation'
Anne Partlon


'Dramatic Tiers: Contemporary Women’s Drama from Northern Ireland'
Rebecca Pelan


'Irish Emigration to New South Wales in 1841'
Eric Richards
Flinders University


'"Viva Paddy!": Irish Renaissance in the 1850s through the eyes of an expatriate female art historian'
Ainslie Robinson
Notre Dame Australia


‘Jack Donohoe And The Irish Woodstove: Ambivalent Irishness In Australian Folklore’
Graham Seal
Curtin University of Technology


'Own her own hands: Irish convict women in Van Dieman's land.'
Dianne Snowden
University of Tasmania


‘Ireland at the United Nations:The Impact of the 1967 Application for EC Membership on Ireland’s UN Policy’
Greg Spelman
Queensland University of Technology


'St Brendan in the Antipodes: the architectural work and ascetic ideal of John Hawes'
William Taylor
University of Western Australia


'Of Course, He Was Irish...The Rogers From County Roscommon'
Anne Teasdale 

'Taxation Reform and the Recent Economic Performance of Ireland'
Michael Thorpe
Curtin University


'Sanctity, speech and gender in early Irish hagiography'
Ann Trindade


'Vagabonds and Prostitutes': Newspaper Representations of the Irish in Colonial Australia
Michael Warren
Swinburne University of Technology.


'With the sanction of Christ's vicar on earth': Cardinal Moran and the vision of the early Irish church
Jonathan M. Wooding
University of Wales