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Interior, Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Sts Peter and Paul, Mullewa
The church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Sts Peter and Paul is in the small rural Western Australian town of Mullewa. The church was built between 1920 and 1927 to the design of Monsignor John Cyril Hawes as his parish church. Hawes was also the…
Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Sts Peter and Paul, Mullewa
The church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Sts Peter and Paul is in the small rural Western Australian town of Mullewa. The church was built between 1920 and 1927 to the design of Monsignor John Cyril Hawes, who was the priest at Mullewa. His design for…
Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Saints Peter and Paul, Mullewa
The church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Sts Peter and Paul is in the small rural Western Australian town of Mullewa. The church was built between 1920 and 1927 to the design of Monsignor John Cyril Hawes, who was the priest at Mullewa. His design for…
Irish National Foresters' Regalia
The Irish National Foresters Organisation is a mutual aid society, which was established to help members in distress and the relatives of members who are deceased. It began in 1877 as a breakaway from the Order of Foresters, which was originally set…
Christmas Pudding. Its Medieval Origin.
In this newspaper article, the author traces the origin of Christmas pudding to the popular medieval dish of “plum porridgeâ€, a savoury dish combining mixed meats, fruits and spices. It suggests that this traditional medieval dish was…
New England Medieval Arts Society
The New England Medieval Arts Society (NEMAS) are a historical re-enactment group based in the New South Wales city of Armidale. The group concentrates on the fourth- to eleventh-century early medieval period (sometimes referred to as the ‘Dark…
‘The Ballad of Sir Anopheles’, The Bulletin, 18 June 1908
The hero of this poem, as the name Sir Anopheles hints, is a mosquito. The author here humorously stages an encounter between man and mosquito as a drawn-out battle between a recumbent Ogre and an intrepid and undaunted medieval knight. It is clear…
He Still Wears the Ruff and Doublet
This article about Australian lyric poet Hugh Raymond McCrae (1876-1958) is titled ‘He still wears the Ruff and Doublet’ in response to a claim supposedly made by Kenneth Slessor (quoted in the article) that McCrae was ‘perpetually…
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