| While we are in the process of editing a lecture about P.E. Strzelecki given in Sydney last Saturday, we are inviting everyone to listen to their talk as given in Melbourne on February the 7th.Perfect sound. Original historic images.
Our guests from Ireland on Strzelecki the explorer and humanitarian. Dur. 50 min.
More written information on the Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand -ISAANZ.ORG website
ABSTRACT- This talk will give an introduction to the life and work of the Polish count Paul (Paweł) Edmund Strzelecki, a figure significant in the 19th century history of Australia and Ireland. As a global traveller, in Australia Strzelecki is best-known as the one of the earliest European explorers and mappers of Gippsland, which he named, along with Australia’s highest peak, Mount Kościuszko. In Ireland, Strzelecki played a major role in humanitarian aid during the Great Famine of the 1840s, as one of the primary agents of the British Relief Association. Strzelecki was the subject of an exhibition produced by Professor Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast) and Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald (University College Dublin), in collaboration with the Polish Embassy of Ireland and launched at the Royal Academy of Ireland, which has toured in both Ireland and Australia. Professor Gray and Assoc. Professor Mark-FitzGerald are the current O’Donnell Research Fellows in Irish Studies at Newman College, University of Melbourne.
Relacja Justyny Tarnowskiej z wykładu w Melbourne
From left: Prof. Gray, Prof. Mark-Fitzgerald with Dr Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek President of KHI. All photos Andrzej Siedlecki |
From left: Hon. Philip Ruddock, AO, prof. A.Kozek, prof.Mark-Fitzgerald, Prof. Gray, and far left Barbara Dąbrowa |
From left: Marysia Nowak, Hon. Philip Ruddock AO, with Ernestyna and Andrzej |
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