AUSTRALIAN-IRISH HERITAGE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA INC

DURACK MEMORIAL LECTURERS

YEAR

SPEAKER

TOPIC

1995

Dr Davis McCaughey AC

From Parnell to Paisley – The Peace Process in Northern Ireland

1996

Ambassador Richard O’Brien

Ireland in the Coming Times

1997

Professor Oliver MacDonagh

O’Connell and Parnell: A Comparison

1998

Clare Dunne OAM

Mother Ireland Mother Earth

1999

Colm & Damien O’Doherty

Countess Constance Markievcz, The Rebel Countess

2000

Siobhan McHugh

Creating the Irish Empire: Television and Historical Compromises

2001

Tony Evans

The Engineer and the Poet: WA’s Irish Legacy, comparing the lives and work of CY O’Connor  and John Boyle O’Reilly 

2002

Professor Jarlath Ronayne

Rogues and Reformers – The Irish in Colonial Australia

2003

Carol Kiernan

Ireland’s Ballad Queen: Delia Murphy, her Life and Music, a Woman for the Times

2004

Ambassador Declan Kelly

Ireland in the Third Millennium: A Country Transformed

2006

Billy Cantwell

Irish Australia: The State of the Union

2007

Peter Sharkey

The Irish in Australia: A Descendant’s Perspective

2008

Perpetua Durack Clancy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman – a partial view of Elizabeth Durack

2009

Professor Bob Reece

The Irishness of Daisy Bates

2010

Dr Richard Reid

Not Just Ned: A True History of the Irish in Australia

2011

Dr George O'Neil,

 Pioneering Medicine in the 21st Century