by Warren Fahey | Jun 19, 2023 | A, B
Burial Grounds of Colonial Sydney TILL DEATH DO US PART Sydney, born of convict blood and sweat, had a brash upbringing from convict settlement to Australia’s first city – all in the space of a mere 44 years after the arrival of the First Fleet. The burial of...
by Warren Fahey | Jun 17, 2023 | B
Bush Poetry (Warren Fahey) When I first started collecting folklore way back in the 1960s, I was always fascinated when old timers would recite bush poems into my tape recorder. I had initially gone out to collect ‘bush songs’ for my National Library of Australia...
by Warren Fahey | Jun 7, 2023 | B
Bushranging and other Crimes Whilst crime should never be celebrated, it is a curious fact that most of our twenty-first-century popular entertainment revolves around crime. Feature films, television, radio programs and book publishing will all show crime at the top...
by Warren Fahey | May 9, 2023 | B
Bawdy Song, Poetry and Worse This section of the site grew out of concern that many of our old songs and expressions of folklore are disappearing. When they go so do parts of our history and national identity. I started collecting bawdry sometime in the boisterous...
