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Irish women in colonial Australia

1998
Books, Manuscripts
Essays on the experiences of Irish women in early Australia, both convicts and free immigrants.
Main title:
Irish women in colonial Australia / edited by Trevor McClaughlin
Imprint:
St Leonards NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1998
Contents:
Thank God it can be no worse: Irish women transported to New South Wales, c. 1788-1828: an Irish-Australian identity / Portia Robinson -- Unfit to die: Irish murderesses as Van Diemen?s Land colonists / Richard Davis -- The priest made a bother about it: the travails of 'that unhappy sisterhood' bound for colonial Australia / Robin Haines -- Dora MacDonagh and her 'sisters': Irish female assisted immigration to New South Wales, c. 1848-1870 / Richard Reid -- If she was to be hard up she would sooner be hard up in a strange land than where she would be known: Irish women in colonial South Australia / Eric Richards & Ann Herraman -- I cannot do any more: resistance, respectability and ruin: recapturing the Irish orphan girls in the Moreton Bay districts / Libby Connors & Bernadette Turner -- Tell father and mother not to be unhappy for I am very comfortable: a sketch of Irish women's experiences in colonial Victoria / Pauline Rule -- I was nowhere else: casualties of colonisation in eastern Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century / Trevor McClaughlin -- This is the place that foolish girls are knowing: reading the letters of emigrant Irish women in colonial Australia / David Fitzpatrick -- Index
Dewey class:
994.0044
Language:
English
BRN:
92203
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
ResearchHistory Support Collection994.0044 IRIAvailable
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