It’s almost Halloween, and after our very popular Irish Samhain cemetery tour last year, we are once again teaming up with our friends at The Haunts of Brisbane and Friends of South Brisbane Cemetery to bring you our first Irish Samhain Tour of Toowong Cemetery.…
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Welcome to the August 2026 Queensland Irish Association Newsletter.
This edition pays tribute to retiring QIA President Jeff Spender, with highlights from his farewell roast at Brisbane City Hall and a look back at his remarkable contribution to the Association.…
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Welcome to the July 2026 edition of QIA Newsletter.
In this edition, we share photographs and reports from Bloomsday in Brisbane, which was again a huge success.
And we share details of our Farewell Roast of Jeff Spender, as we give our former President a big send-off in Brisbane City Hall.…
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The Queensland Irish Association is joining forces with the Royal Historical Society of Queensland for a special heritage walk exploring the story of Brisbane’s earliest days.
QIA members are invited to take part in an exclusive Queen’s Wharf Precinct Heritage Tour on Tuesday, 18 August, discovering the historic buildings, people and events that shaped the city from its colonial beginnings.…
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As we celebrated Bloomsday in Brisbane on Tuesday, June 16 at Queen Street Mall, we also had another big celebration in the works.
We are having a Roast of our past President Jeff Spender at City Hall on 24 July.…
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