Protected: Long Paddock for Southerly 81.1: Ireland and Other Islands
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Long Paddock for Southerly 81.1: Ireland and Other Islands
This issue is a Festschrift for Professor Elizabeth McMahon, to honour her service to Southerly as its editor from 2008 to 2022. Alongside her dedication to Southerly, Professor McMahon has also long served the Irish community in Australia in myriad ways. It is fitting then that this issue also focusses on Ireland, engaging with our contemporary understandings of Ireland and Irishness and their entanglements with Australian life. This issue asks, what does it mean to be Irish, or of Irish heritage, or to be interested in Irishness, while living and working in Australia on unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
The Simple Act of Reading
by Fiona McFarlane It’s been a pleasure to blog for Southerly, and now I’m going to end my month with a shameless plug. On Redfern Street in Redfern, Sydney, there’s an extraordinary place called the Sydney Story Factory. I was invited to give a reading there one night. I was given the address and I knew to look out for ‘Sydney Story Factory’, but when I arrived in Redfern I couldn’t find it; I found, instead, a place calling itself the Martian Embassy. If the residents of Mars were to establish a diplomatic outpost on Earth it might look something…