Irish Aussies: historical perspectives
Irish immigrant experiences in Australia in the long nineteenth century
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Convicts
Irish Catholic convicts ~ Paul Clifford
Castle Hill rebellion, 1804 ~ Shauna Higgins
The Phoebe Dunbar, 1853 ~ Eimear McCarthy
Irish female convicts ~ Kate O’ Gorman
Discrimination
Anti-Irish and Anti-Catholic policies ~ Aisilyn Guivens
Tarnished reputations and institutional prejudices ~ Clíona Purcell
The ‘new Irish’? Anti-Chinese agitation ~ Joshua Tomiak
Education
Establishing a Catholic education system ~ Michael Keogh
Pioneering Irish schoolteachers ~ Rachel McDonagh
The Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School ~ Meg O’Brien
The Earl Grey Orphan Emigration Scheme ~ Abigail Richardson
Law and order
Existing on both sides of the law: Peter Lalor ~ Adrian Quaid
The Robin Hood of Van Diemen’s Land, bushranger Martin Cash – Michaela Duffy
Enforcing the law: Irish-Australian policemen ~ Evan Ryan
Leisure and Culture
Gambling culture ~ Ashley Bentley
Hurling and identity ~ Conor Healy
Sydney’s ‘Irish Fancy Fair’, 1885 ~ Denise Murphy
South Australia
Constructing a colony: building South Australia ~ Robert Agar
Being Irish and successful ~ Rachelle Laman
Poverty and mental illness ~ Aoife O’Brien
Making it
Mixed fortunes in New South Wales ~ Rachel Harnett
Gold rush! James William Esmond in mid-nineteenth-century Victoria ~ Eamonn Hegarty
Simone Kett
Samuel O’Connor
Self-sufficiency in the Australian Bush: struggles in New South Wales, 1840-99 ~ Aaron Twomey
Press portrayals
The Irish famine orphan girls, 1848-50: reception and portrayal ~ Michael Collins
Relief for ‘starving countrymen at home’, 1846 ~ Heather Daly
‘Good colonisers’? Irish-Aboriginal interactions, 1810-1890 ~ Killian Gleeson
The shooting of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1868 ~ Nadine Haugh
Society and influence
Irish Free Settlers in South Australia ~ En En Chang
Sinn Féiners and ‘disloyal’ Irish in the early twentieth century ~ Áine Doherty
Katie McCurry
Luis Pascual Gonzalez
The First World War
Medicine and mateship: Irish ANZAC nurses ~ Kathy Carter
Lonely graves by Suvla’s waves: Irish ANZACs at Gallipoli ~ Muirenn Casey
Paranoia and prejudice: Australia’s Conscription Referendum 1917 ~ Laura Culkeen
Spectacles of splendour: St. Patrick’s Day in wartime Perth ~ Lynda Ganly
Cormac O’Brien
Colonial politics & governance
Sandrine Ndahiro
A ‘rebel’ Premier: Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903) in Victoria ~ Tom Parat
From Irish convict to leading Queensland politician: Patrick O’Sullivan (1818-1904) ~ Sinéad Ryan
Civilising a colony? Sir Richard Bourke and the Church Act, NSW, 1836 ~ Siobhan Whelan
War and conflict
John H. Plunkett & the Myall Creek Massacre, 1838 ~ Ivan Bolger
The Catalpa ‘rescue’, Western Australia, 1876 ~ Noel Harrington
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