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Dominic O’Grady

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New art gallery opens in Port Macquarie

Luminance Art Gallery
January 29, 2025 by Dominic O'Grady

Port Macquarie’s new art gallery, Luminance, opens on 6 March 2025 with an exhibition of abstract paintings by Malcom Harding.

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January 29, 2025 /Dominic O'Grady

Kyoto

November 28, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel, Life

On the face of it, nothing but moss grows in the Ryoanji rock garden. But when you consider the play of light and the river-flow of pebbles, you realise the garden is alive.

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November 28, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
kyoto, japan, tea ceremony, zen
Travel, Life
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Hiroshima

November 25, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady

In Hiroshima, where more than 140,00 people died after the US dropped an atomic bomb, we met an elderly man who was probably a survivor’s son.

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November 25, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
hiroshima, japan

Tokyo haiku

November 20, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel

No time for long-form travel journalism? Here’s Tokyo in 17 syllables.

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November 20, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
japan, tokyo, senso-ji temple, travel
Travel
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Kelly Country 1946

September 01, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Life, Fathering

My father’s name was William but only the tax collector, the electoral officer and the undertaker called him that. Everyone else knew him by his nickname, Kelly.

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September 01, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
Father's Day, father and son
Life, Fathering
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Happy 18th, Sid

July 05, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Life

Happy 18th birthday, Sid. Know that you have a father who thinks of you always and loves you forever.

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July 05, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
father and son, magic, the egg bag trick
Life
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Society scribe shares sleaze secret

June 23, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in LGBTI news

Columnist Lance Leopard found meaning and metaphor in the mundane and the remarkable.

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June 23, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
lance leopard, lgbt, sydney star observer, lolita 2000
LGBTI news
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Thanks Mum

May 19, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Life, Travel

My mother, Doreen Eleanor O’Grady (née Doherty) died 18 years ago today. 

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May 19, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
travel, parents
Life, Travel
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The cars that ate Paris

May 18, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel, Life

Peter Weir got his idea for The Cars That Ate Paris while driving through France in the ‘70s.

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May 18, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
paris, travel, france
Travel, Life

Nîmes

May 15, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel

Within a few minutes’ walk you’ll find Maison Carrée, the pagan temple dedicated to Caius and Lucius Caesar.

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May 15, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
travel, france
Travel

The Perspective Gallery

April 30, 2024 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel, Novel

Perspective is one of Rome’s gifts. It’s something the city offers as entertainment and instruction.

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April 30, 2024 /Dominic O'Grady
rome, travel, italy
Travel, Novel

Christmas in Bellingen

December 31, 2023 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel, Novel, Life

Have you ever travelled because of a book? Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda sent us to Bellingen a mere 30+ years after first reading.

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December 31, 2023 /Dominic O'Grady
Bellingen, Dorrigo, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
Travel, Novel, Life
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Venice, Italy

June 03, 2023 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel, Life, Food

The Grand Canal turned the colour of bruised kiwi fruit soon after we arrived. Who’s to blame?

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June 03, 2023 /Dominic O'Grady
italy, venice
Travel, Life, Food

Pella, Lake Orta

May 26, 2023 by Dominic O'Grady in Travel, Life

I want to sacrifice my retirement savings and turn this abandoned building into a writer’s retreat.

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May 26, 2023 /Dominic O'Grady
italy
Travel, Life
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