‘on behalf of the people of Ireland’: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Irish-Australian Diplomacy

Edited by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa & Jeff Brownrigg, published by The Irish Embassy Australia 2022

Contents

ii Acknowledgements

iv Contributors’ Biographical Notes

00 Former Ambassador of Ireland, H.E. Breandán Ó Caollaí, ‘Foreword’

00 Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘“The old was good but it was not good to live entirely on the old”: History, Media and the Making of a New Ireland, 1930s-1940s’

00 Richard Reid, ‘“Brought before us the tremendous fact of Celtic culture”: Dr Thomas Joseph Kiernan in Australia, 1946 to 1954’

00 ‘Images’

00 Frank Bongiorno, ‘“the snarl of a dog and the smile of an Englishman”: Ireland, Australia and the Postwar World, 1946-1950’

00 Jeff Brownrigg, ‘“Mrs Kiernan Wins Where She Wanders”: Delia Murphy in Australia’

00 Kevin Bradley, ‘From Ireland to Australia: T.J. Kiernan, Harold White, Robert Menzies and Gifting the Book of Kells’

00 Ambassador of Ireland, H.E. Tim Mawe, ‘Afterword’