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The monument is a personification of the River Liffey (Abhainn na Life in Irish) which runs through the city. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake who also embodies the river. In the monument's original location, the river was represented as a young woman sitting on a slope with water flowing past her.
1981 ledger listing various clients of a Magdalene laundry. In the late 18th century, the term "fallen women" primarily referred to sex workers, [11] but by the end of the 19th century, Magdalene laundries were filled with many different kinds of women, including girls who were "not prostitutes at all," but rather "seduced women."
252–270 Flinders Street: former Townsville Post Office (now The Brewery) [25] 253–259 Flinders Street: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery [26] 272–278 Flinders Street: Commonwealth Bank Building [27] 295–303 Flinders Street: Queensland National Bank [28] 337–343 Flinders Street: Westpac Bank [29] 408–410 Flinders Street: Henlein & Co ...
Townsville hosted the popular Japanese national rugby union team. Tony Ireland Stadium, in the suburb of Thuringowa, has an international standard cricket and AFL stadium. Townsville was a host city for the preliminary rounds of the men's (Pool B) and women's (pool A) Basketball competition for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. [113] [114]
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A new St Joseph's Church was built in Fryer Street in 1921. A hostel known as St Rita's was opened in an old house relocated to The Strand to the north of the convent, reputedly in the early 1900s. It provided accommodation for young women from country areas working in Townsville. [1] [6]: 103–4
Ireland portal; An Banshenchas (literally "the woman lore") is a medieval text which collects brief descriptions of prominent women in Irish legend and history into a poetic narrative. [1] Unlike much of early Irish literature, An Banshenchas may be attributed to a specific author and date.
Irish folklore holds that it is bad luck to damage or disrespect such tombs and that deliberately doing so could bring a curse. [5] [6] In Irish mythology, one of the burial cairns is said to be the abode of the god Bodhbh Dearg, son of the Dagda. [7] Fionn marries Sadhbh, Bodhbh's daughter, on Slievenamon, and their son is the famous Oisín.