FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th April 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog

Dara, the Archbishop’s Palace and a wedding.  Catherine Thompson

Outback Family History

Tommy Ningebong by Phil Bianchi       So All’s Well that Ends Well –

Joana Fidele Scattini – grave tales   Broad Arrow Cemetery – Kurawah

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl. Anzac Day 

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• Dawn Service at 5.30 am, Sculpture Garden
• RSL ACT Branch Veterans’ March at 9.30 am, Parade Ground
• Last Post Ceremony at 4.30 pm, Commemorative Area

Interesting...

'Delighted work has resumed on restoration of iconic restaurant': Paragon Cafe repairs to finally start   Six years after it closed its doors, work is finally scheduled to start on restoring the Paragon Cafe in Katoomba.....

Despatch Newsletter of Public Record Office Victoria    April 2024 - Introducing our new 'photo wall'    'what's new in 2023' blog posts 

 Discovering history: Heffernan of the shamrock plus more

National Library of Australia    read here incl. Vintage Crochet 

You can view a sample pattern for a mesh scarf on our website.

Discover Trove and more

Eltham District Historical Society Inc. incl. April Meeting: From Eltham to Nillumbik Shires – a personal perspective

genealogy Ireland

Cancer 'red flag' warning signs and how to prevent it amid worrying Ireland death toll 

These Five Countries Will Give You a Passport Based on Your Ancestry - PopCrush 

Opinion: Climbing my family tree - Concord Monitor 

Limited-edition Gold Spot pays tribute to generations of colourful family history behind the ... 

Irish History Forum to meet at library - Mid-Island Times 

Kate Winslet takes cookery course with TV chef in Ireland in trip that has deep roots to Titanic role 

We need to make more of our Irish diaspora 

Tinteán Magazine

Tim Mawe on Irish Distinction    The Migrant Crisis 

It’s Time: Leo Varadkar Resigns as Taoiseach  Fr Dan O’Donovan

Brigidfest 2024   Poetry from Margaret Galvin  Three Irish Novels

Pummelled by Mother-Love  What’s On in April and Beyond

What's On  page for Australian Irish events.

Interesting Library

Column: Library Week is here – Check it, or a sewing machine, out - Tampa Beacon 

Atlas Obscura

What Is the World’s Fastest Language?  The Failed Dream of Turkey’s Fairy-Tale Ghost Town    Only Ghosts and the Curious Walk This Tunnel How an Eclipse Helped Confirm the Theory of Relativity

The Street Snack That Baffles Scientists    Used Tires and Fresh Ramen.When Hawaii Almost Got Sold to Russia     20th-Century Replica of a 13th-Century Castle Now in Ruins     One of the Last Places to Catch a Show by This Animatronic Band   A Shuttered Car Dealership Full of Rare, Untouched 90s Cars    Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Fully-Realized Skyscraper  Is Mars Messing With Us?  Cities With Psychological Disorders Named After Them    Ventriloquism’s Demonic Origins     Historical Wonders and Modern Curiosities Along the Danube     The Underground Grand Canyon  A Mill That Dominated the 11th-Century Sugar Industry  An Experiment Brought Bison to BornholmA Forest Built for Ships That Never Came to Be   Portugal: A Culinary Adventure from Porto to Lisbon   Honoring the World War Dead in Africa    In a Dockyard Far Far Away, a Spaceship Was Built for Film    Stalactite-Filled Caves Once Hid Illicit Liquor and Smoked Meats  More People Have Been to the Moon Than This Island    The Very Well-Loved Grave of Journalist Victor Noir     These Tunnels Were Made for Walking   Kayak or Row This Eerie Flooded Forest in Southeast Asia   Do You Have the Key to Pass This Keyhole-Shaped Canyon?  A Wishing Tree Shields the Entrance to an Underground Chapel    A Lonely Road Tied to Ghost Towns and Ghost Stories Tapeworms Bothered the Dinosaurs, Too  Fighting Robbers With Torpedos  1893’s Hottest Drink Was Orange Cider  A Square With 100s of Nesting Dolls and One Giant Hotel   The World’s Only Art Nouveau Two-Story McDonald’s   A Balkans Road Trip    A Mysterious Crypt Rediscovered  A Berlin Underpass Made Famous in Film and Screen A Once Prosperous Railroad Town Falls to Ruin Victorian’s Deathly Beauty Ideals  The Chinese Female Pirate Who Commanded 80,000 Outlaws A Park Stolen Out of Existence   Saenger Theatre Pensacola   A Church Hides a Cauldron 'Borrowed' from a Local Witch  Hotel Construction Reveals Ancient Civilization A Handless Ghost Haunts These Ruins Hidden on a Farm

 PODCASTS : A Collection of (Non-Demonic) Ventriloquist Dummies     What It's Like to Travel Nonstop for an Entire Year  The Dark History of Hawaii’s Iconic Hand Gesture  How the Black Death Created Modern British Pub Culture   The Strange Faces Haunting a Spanish Home Centuries Later, We Still Don’t Know What These Are

    

JSTOR Daily

A Garden of Verses   She's All About That Bass     Make Your Own Poetry Anthology    

Always Interesting

Anne's Family History      E is for election   F is for farmers 

G is for gamekeepers and poachers  H is for Halleluljah! I is for inns

J is for Justice of the Peace   K is for visit of the King

Pauline Conolly AN ANT LARVAE AFTERNOON TEA       OVALTINE

Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Otto Dix

Faerie Paths — Eternity

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland    #OTD in Irish History | 8 April:

Gerry's Family History Revisiting the North Moreton witches

allenrizzi  I-95

Reviews

Better Reading

The Glass House by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion    READ MORE

Read an Extract: Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan   READ AN EXTRACT

The Mistress of Dara Island by Averil Kenny  READ MORE

The Players by Deborah Pike READ MORE

Allen& Unwin

Toni Lodge Wins Booktopia's FAB Award... I Don't Need Therapy (and other lies I've told myself)  read an extract

 

And Then She Fell   Alicia Elliot longlisted for the 2024 Womens Prize for Fiction   check it out

Penguin Books Australia

The Familiar    Leigh Bardugo       START READING NOW

At the Going Down of the Sun    Mary Anne O'Connor   READ A SNIPPET

The Rivertown Vet      Jennifer Scoullar      START READING

Listen for the Lie     Amy Tintera  CHECK IT OUT

The Wealth Money Can't Buy   Robin Sharma    TAKE ME THERE

The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt   FIND OUT MORE