On 7 January 2015 I learned a profound truth about New Zealand media. My family and I had flown from Dublin to Paris on our way to Sweden where I had an appointment to interview a subject for my PhD. Stopping in Paris made sense to us because Paris has a Disneyland and our young […]
Month: December 2021
University of Canterbury ‘Notable Alumni’
In April 2021 I was made a ‘Notable Alumni’ of the University of Canterbury. Described in the citation as ‘activist, academic and performing artist’, I was awarded this honour by Vice Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey in April 2021. I am one of only forty-five ‘Notable Alumni’, a list that includes community activist Dame […]
New Year’s Eve 2021 – a reminiscence
When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing. I didn’t know then but where we lived was the wrong side of the tracks and brutally working class. It was post-war, the dawning of the 1950s, and everyone in our street lived in a state house. Most of the families […]
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