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THE AUSTRALIAN IRISH HERITAGE NETWORK No 3, March 2008 PRINT POST APPROVED PP 336663/00047 $6 Irish Sisters in Australia Their infl uence in Colonial education Cardinal Moran: Being Irish and Catholic Edmund Campion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inteán No 3, March 2008 Tinteán is a publication of the Contents Australian Irish Heritage Network Regulars 2 Letters: Connections and more Bold Jack Donohue PO Box 13095, Law Courts, 3 Editorial: Healthy Australia? Felicity Allen Melbourne, 8010 4 News: Potatoes; The Ambassador; Sorry Day; Irish in Stitches Tel 61-3-96708865 5 News: Literary Award & magazines; Brigidfest; O’ hAilpín Email [email protected] 6 News: Updates: Hill of Tara; The Sea Stallion; Obituaries Web http://www.tintean.org.au 7 News: Events Published four times per annum 8 News: Lake School at Koroit, Felix Meagher ABN 13643653067 9 News: Daonscoil at Bacchus Marsh, Deirdre Gillespie ISSN 1835-1093 10 Financials: A Year of Extremes, Simon Good 11 Music: A History, Stuart Traill Editor: 12 Profi le: Kim Keenan, Manager, Celtic Club, Melbourne Liz McKenzie 13 Bolg and tSolatháir/Odds and Ends, Val Noone Deputy Editor: 14 Irish Language: Daonscoil Felicity Allen Business Manager: Features Patrick McNamara 17 Irish Episcopal Imperialism, Colin Barr Advertising: 18 Cardinal Moran: Being Irish & Catholic, Edmund Campion Marie Feeley, tel 03 5996 3343 20 Jonathon Swift, Elizabeth Malcolm; Iron Age Medicine, Felicity Allen Production: 22 Presentation Sisters and Colonial Education, Sr Noela Fox pbvm Andrew Macdermid 24 Sisters of Mercy and Colonial Education, Dr Rosa MacGinley pbvm Other workers on this issue: 26 The Dillon Mission to Australia, Patrick Naughtin Terry Monagle, Peter Kiernan, 28 Brick Trail in Tasmania, Rosemary Gleeson Frances Devlin-Glass, Bob Glass, 29 Francis Stuart, Irish Australian Poet, Patrick Morgan John McMahon, Catherine Arthur, 32 St Patrick’s Day 1920 Meg McNena, Amanda Haberman, Poetry Kate Cliff ord, Rob Butler, 30 Gort Inse Guaire/Welcome to my Country, Deirdre Kearney Bernie Brophy, Don McKenzie, 31 The reading, Gerard Hanberry; Spectres, Maureen McAteer Felicity McNamara. Reviews Views expressed in the articles, 33 The Anzacs and Ireland, Val Noone letters and advertisements are 35 Walkabout, Robert Glass; Reminiscences, Liz McKenzie those of the contributors and not 36 The Pride of Parnell Street, Mark Quinn necessarily those of the Australian 37 The Irish Red Setter, Felicity Allen Irish Heritage Network or of the 38 Dubliners, Deirdre Gillespie editor. 39 A Memoir, Eamonn de Valera, Terry Monagle 40 The Generation Game, Liz McKenzie The Australian Irish Heritage Network to build and explore the Irish Australian identity. The maga- Membership is open to all with an identifi cation with Irish her- zine will welcome material which explores the big themes of itage. It was founded in 2007 to continue the spirit and work exile, diaspora and settlement. It will also encourage the tell- of Val Noone and Mary Doyle. ing of the micro-stories that express narratives of individuals One of its activities is to publish the magazine Tinteán and families. There will be a continual study of the political (meaning hearth in Gaelic and pronounced ‘Tintoyne’ – the and economic evolution of Ireland, and of the contribution fada on the fi nal á giving the syllable the dominant stress and which Irish-Australians have made to Australia. The intention the “augh” sound). is to explore and celebrate the playing out of the Irish heritage The AIHN offi ce is in the basement of the Celtic Club, 316 in Australia, past, present and future. Queen St, Melbourne. We express our thanks to the Club for its generosity. People are welcome to drop in. However, as we Activities are only there part time, please check fi rst. As well as the magazine, we hope to conduct social and educational events; disseminate news and information via Objectives of the AIHN the internet; off er recognition for service to literary and This Association, as its primary objective, will produce a liter- historical endeavours; issue cultural and political comment, ary magazine called Tinteán. The focus of the magazine will be and research and record our heritage. Tinteán March 2008 1 Letters Ballybunion connections paraphrasing a line from the poet Lord Neil has foreshadowed a full-length I am pleased to support your new exciting Byron, ‘Full in death’s face’. Both Byron article about this interesting collabora- project. I am thrilled with your choice of and Donahue were revolutionary spirits tion and some of the individual family name – Tinteán – which makes a homely David Toohey, Penrith, NSW relationships it is turning up. connection with us here in Ballybunion. Nóirín Uí Cháthain, Ballybunion, Dalley in defence of Empire Co Kerry, Ireland Many thanks for including Frank Mol- Nóirín Uí Cháthain is a principal of the loy’s review of my book about William Tinteán Theatre, Ballybunion, opened Bede Dalley in the second Tinteán. in April 2006 as a major initiative in Co I was surprised Frank didn’t mention Kerry as a centre for cultural training the episode Dalley is most often remem- and development. bered for: the despatch of Australia’s rst expeditionary force, the New South An excellent start Wales Sudan contingent of 1885. Thank you for your excellent coverage Dalley commented euphorically at the of the Amy Castles concert held recently time: ‘Dear boy, this is a great business. It in Bendigo. I think that Tinteán has got is gall and wormwood to the bigots, holy off to an excellent start. Many thanks for water to the Orangemen. Fancy, after all everything. the years they have been calling us plot- John Clancy, Bendigo, Vic. ting Papists and Fenian rebels, the rst men from Australia to serve the Queen on Bold Jack Donahue unmasked The Connecticut connection the eld of battle are being sent by a Paddy I am writing in answer to Gerry Fahey's I just received the November 2007 issue and a Holy Roman’. Three years later, enquiry about Bold Jack Donahue (Tint- of Tinteán and nd it, like the previous shortly before his death, he wrote of his eán issue 1). I am researching a book one, as good if not better than Táin, and despair at what he considered the misrep- about this remarkable man. that is saying something. resentation of his motives by critics of the The Sydney Gazette of 4 September Several years ago, I was fortunate expedition. It’s a moving human story. 1830 reported that Donahue had been enough to be invited to lunch with Peter The review also doesn’t mention Dal- killed by a police party armed with ries, Kiernan, who was visiting his son at Yale ley’s literary interests and friendships whilst he had two pistols. A death mask University in New Haven. Out of that – not least his close, but for a time dra- in plaster of Paris was made by a Mr lunch some good things have come to the matically fractured, relationship with that Morland. The mask featuring the head of Connecticut Irish-American Historical other memorable convicts’ son, Daniel the bushranger was used as a model for Society in which I am active. Henry Deniehy. clay pipes that were sold in Sydney for First, Peter sent us an entire run of the Another review can be found at twenty years. It must be the rst case of issues of Táin and we have placed them http://tinyurl.com/2p677c (PDF le) celebrity marketing in Australian history. in our library and archives at Southern Robert Lehane, Canberra, ACT There are no reports of any progeny Connecticut State University. We recip- of Donahue. At the time of his death, rocated by sending Peter a full run of our Against capital punishment he had two other escaped convicts with newsletter, The Shanachie.