Category: Ita’s World

Thomas Walsh (1871-1943), seaman and trade unionist, was born on 15 January 1871 in Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland. Son of Patrick Walsh, a cobbler, and his wife, Mary, née Murphy, his mother died soon after their son’s birth. He was raised by aunts, received little schooling but read widely. Ireland to Australia ‘Tom’ Walsh went to sea and in 1893 arrived in Brisbane hoping to join William Lane’s New Australia venture in Paraguay largely influenced by Robert Owen (1771-1858),…

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Chemistry – our life, our future has been chosen as the theme for International Year of Chemistry in 2011. The year celebrates the centenary in 1911 of the granting of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Marie Curie (1867-1934) for her discovery of radium and polonium. She died as a result of the radiation to which she had been exposed. The year 2011 also marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Chemical Societies. IYC…

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