Qualla: New Ireland https://qualla.com/new-ireland en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: New Ireland https://qualla.com/new-ireland New Ireland: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-ireland/ On the west coast of New Ireland, at a village called Kontu, a man paddles a dugout canoe into the open sea, stops his paddle, and begins to sing. He is not performing. He is calling a shark. The song belongs to his clan, handed down through generations of men who learned that the right combination of rattles, voice, and patience will bring a pelagic predator alongside a hollowed log. When the shark arrives, the caller slips a noose over its head and wrestles it aboard. This is not metaphor or folklore repurposed for tourists - the shark callers of Kontu still do this, though the practice is rarer than it was.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/r/7/e/new-ireland-wk/rr7e-new-ireland-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Ireland: A Sliver in the Pacific https://qualla.com/new-ireland/ New Ireland is shaped like a long green blade laid across the sea northeast of the rest of Papua New Guinea. The main island stretches for hundreds of kilometers but is only a few dozen wide, and the province gathers up dozens of smaller islands and atolls along its flanks. The l...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/r/7/e/new-ireland-wk/rr7e-new-ireland-a-sliver-in-the-pacific.mp3 0:06 2 full New Ireland: The Boluminski Road https://qualla.com/new-ireland/ The island's spine is the Boluminski Highway, running from Kavieng in the north down to Namatanai two-thirds of the way south. The road is paved for much of the distance and gives way to a surface of crushed white coral as it approaches the end. It is named after Franz Boluminski...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/r/7/e/new-ireland-wk/rr7e-new-ireland-the-boluminski-road.mp3 0:06 3 full New Ireland: Malagan and the Memory of the Dead https://qualla.com/new-ireland/ The cultural tradition that makes northern New Ireland famous in the art museums of Europe is called Malagan. The word names both the ceremonies and the carvings made for them - masks, poles, and figures of wood, paint, and shell, rendered in a visual grammar so intricate that sc...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/r/7/e/new-ireland-wk/rr7e-new-ireland-malagan-and-the-memory-of-the-dead.mp3 0:06 4 full New Ireland: Water Country https://qualla.com/new-ireland/ Kavieng, the capital, faces open ocean on almost every side, and New Ireland's draw for travelers has always been what is wet. From November to April, North Pacific swells curl into the northern coast and surfers follow. From mid-May through October, southeast trades provide stea...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/r/7/e/new-ireland-wk/rr7e-new-ireland-water-country.mp3 0:06 5 full New Ireland: Arrivals and Departures https://qualla.com/new-ireland/ People have been arriving in New Ireland for a very long time. Lapita pottery fragments, scattered across several sites, mark an early Austronesian wave that passed through on its way south into the Solomons and the rest of the Pacific. The Dutch came in 1616, Abel Tasman in 1643...

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