Coolabah, Nr 28, 2020, ISSN 1988-5946, Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians i 

Transnacionals / Observatory: Australian and Transnational Studies Centre, 

Universitat de Barcelona 

 
 

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Homage from the Universitat de Barcelona 

 

 

EACLALS will greatly miss his cheery face, which has delighted so many people in 

meetings all over the world. He made a great contribution to the workings of the 

association-- always helping us in difficult moments.   

 

Doireann Macdermott 

 

 

 

A little ditty from a Northern lassie 

to a Midlands Brummie: 

Unpretentious and full of fun -- 

May we meet in Kingdom Come! 

 

Kathleen Firth 

 

 

 

It was the warmth … 

 

That is how I’ll remember you, dear Geoff. 

 

I didn’t know you as well as some of my colleagues and now the chance has passed but 

the times we shared at conferences were always rewarding: your kind enquiry, your 

readiness to listen, your zest for living and knowing more, your eagerness to 

communicate and ability to convey scholarship with gargantuan gusto, laced with 

laughter. 

 

Last seen in Ljubljana, the summer before you left us. The fire doesn’t fade; we carry 

your embers.  

 

Jacqueline Hurtley