Irish Convict Lives
Edited by Bob Reece
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Irish Convict Lives
Edited by Bob Reece |
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Traces the Irish and Australian careers of some noteworthy Irish convict men and women – eight original essays put faces on some of the 50,000 otherwise anonymous statistics. Eight authors answer basic questions about these involuntary ‘nation-builders’: why they were, what lives they led at home, how they came to be transported, and how they fared in the Australian colonies – and offer reasons for the more difficult matter of why some flourished and others fell by the wayside. Irish women and men from Tyrone-Fermanagh, Cork city, Wicklow’s villages and valleys, and Newry – all these turn up in ‘Irishtown’ near Sydney, Moreton Bay (Brisbane), Hobart and Launceston, Fremantle.
pages 266 + xii pages, B&W illustrations, index SOLD OUT, sorry! |
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