Catholicism

Commentators have been quick to recognise Wafer, Item’s protagonist as a Christ-figure, and to discuss aspects of what Roslynn Haynes perceived to be a…

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…

What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This essay analyses Ruth Park’s Serpent’s Delight (1962) in transnational, Australian and modern contexts. Though the manifest concern of the novel is whether the visions…