2026 Calendar

Annual General Meeting and February Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Dr Jeff Kildea, Honorary Professor in Irish Studies at UNSW will give a talk entitled “Hate Speech: We’ve been down this road before” in which he will discuss how Orange v. Green rivalry in nineteenth century Australia led to incidents of violence in which shots were fired into crowds with fatal consequences.

St Patrick’s Day Dinner

6.00 pm for 6.30pm
Rydges Surry Hills Rooftop Function Room

Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Jim Duffy will speak on “John Boyle O’Reilly – More than the Catalpa escape”

Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Live from Kansas, USA, Mike Slattery will give a talk on “Being of Irish Heritage in America and more specifically in Kansas

Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Dr Damian Gleeson will give a talk entitled “’Parish Priest of New South Wales’: Reverend John Joseph Therry, ca 1789-1864”

Mid Year Lunch

12.00 pm for 12.30pm
Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club, 117 Ryedale Rd, West Ryde

Speaker: Dr Sharon McArdle wil speak about Dorothy Macardle, a remarkable but often overlooked Gothic Irish writer, historian, humanitarian, and political prisoner during the Irish Civil War.

Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Dr Samuel Beckton, online from Ireland, will give a talk entitled, “No Surrender from Down Under: The Australian Anti-Irish Home Rule Movement, 1911–14”.

Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Professor Peter Kuch will give the next in his series of talks on Irish theatre in Australia.

Ordinary Meeting

6.00 pm
Irish Consulate-General and online via Zoom.

Speaker: Dr Richard Reid and Dr Perry McIntyre will give a talk “‘Your wife is at my side as I write’: an Irish/Australian family ‘saga’, 1834/1885” in which they will tell the story of a family who managed to reconstruct in Australia their family life in Ireland.

Christmas Party

6.00 pm for 6.30pm
Rydges Surry Hills Rooftop Function Room