Millionplus Australian real estate for saleIn 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority - no one more so than Daniel Mannix, the venerable Cork-born archbishop of Melbourne. Tall, gaunt and magisterial, Mannix was already ancient. Born in 1864, he had become a contentious ecclesiastical figure in the Irish nationalist movement. Shipped to Australia, his stand against conscription led to demands for his deportation. In 1920, the Royal Navy prevented him landing in his insurgent homeland and he returned to Australia,...
The Monthly, July 2008, No. 36
In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment • Guy Pearse
Old House • Mungo MacCallum
Katharine’s Place • Alice Pung
Trivial Pursuit • Craig Sherborne
Old House • Mungo MacCallum
Katharine’s Place • Alice Pung
Trivial Pursuit • Craig Sherborne
The Monthly Essays
The Same Dirty Old Energy
Making Sense of the Flores Find
Convicts and national character
The idea of the north
Arts & Letters
More Than Picong • Louis Nowra
Seeing the Light • Robert Forster
Pipe Dreams • Michael Cathcart
Stand & Deliver • Luke Davies
‘Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith’ by Mark E Smith (with Austin Collings) • Gideon Haigh
‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail • Chris Middendorp
Seeing the Light • Robert Forster
Pipe Dreams • Michael Cathcart
Stand & Deliver • Luke Davies
‘Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith’ by Mark E Smith (with Austin Collings) • Gideon Haigh
‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail • Chris Middendorp
Encounters
The 7th Brigade & the Kaigun Rikusentai • Shane Maloney
