A happy and holy occasion

By John O'Donoghue

Subjects: drama, Irish-Australian, WW2

Description: A humourous account of a doomed family party held in Newcastle (Australia) on Friday 13 February 1942, the eve of the eldest son's entrance into a seminary and the fall of Singapore. A portrait of family interdependence and the Irish-Australian heritage if romanticism, ebullient humour, guilt and vulnerability.