Irish Women in Colonial Australia

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania
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Author: Trevor McClaughlin ISBN: 9781743439364
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication: October 1, 1998
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Language: English
Author: Trevor McClaughlin
ISBN: 9781743439364
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication: October 1, 1998
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Language: English

The women of Ireland, bond or free, have left a distinctive mark on Australia's population and culture.

Irish Women in Colonial Australia provides an intriguing picture of the richness and variety of the Irish experience in the making of a new nation. Ireland provided the majority of female convicts for the first forty years of the penal colony, and Irish women made up a significant proportion of assisted and free immigrants throughout the nineteenth century. Through nine lively essays, a rare collaboration between family historians and professional historians enables the reader to range across the lives of murderers and orphans, workers and the new rich, country maids and slum dwellers.

Who were these women? Why did they come here? What did they bring with them? And what did they make of their lives in the raw, new world so different from the world they left behind?

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The women of Ireland, bond or free, have left a distinctive mark on Australia's population and culture.

Irish Women in Colonial Australia provides an intriguing picture of the richness and variety of the Irish experience in the making of a new nation. Ireland provided the majority of female convicts for the first forty years of the penal colony, and Irish women made up a significant proportion of assisted and free immigrants throughout the nineteenth century. Through nine lively essays, a rare collaboration between family historians and professional historians enables the reader to range across the lives of murderers and orphans, workers and the new rich, country maids and slum dwellers.

Who were these women? Why did they come here? What did they bring with them? And what did they make of their lives in the raw, new world so different from the world they left behind?

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