Lunch Series: Celtic Conversations with Prof Dianne Hall

​This regular lunch series will feature insights and an engaging presentation from a special guest speaker in our community, over a delicious catered set lunch and the opportunity to connect with fellow club members in a welcoming setting.

​*Your ticket price includes presentation and insights from our guest speaker and a catered two course set lunch.

​This month we welcome Prof Dianne Hall, a professor of History at Victoria University and also the co-author with Elizabeth Malcolm of A new history of the Irish in Australia (2018).

​What did Irish people know about Australia in the past?
By the 1930s, most families in Ireland knew people who had left Ireland. But how much did they know about Australia, rather than north America where most migrants went?

​Professor Hall will share insights on the essays written by school children and their teachers in the 1930s for the Folklore commission. Among folk stories about magical connections between Irish and Australian places and people, there is information about individuals as well as more well known Irish Australians such Michael Dwyer and even Ned Kelly!