Irish Women In Colonial Australia

Author : Trevor McClaughlin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1864487151
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women in Colonial Australia written by Trevor McClaughlin and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating trip into colonial history, the result of collaboration between family historians, genealogists and social historians

Author : Trevor McClaughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781459690196
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women in Colonial Australia written by Trevor McClaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ?

Author : Elizabeth A. Rushen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992467104
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Duchesses written by Elizabeth A. Rushen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just two years, 750 young Irish women sailed from Cork to Sydney on the Duchess of Northumberland in 1834 and again in 1836 and the James Pattison in 1835. For the women who took the courageous decision to emigrate, the pain of leaving Ireland was mixed with the excitement of forging a new life in the colony of New South Wales. This book examines the backgrounds and lives of these young women. Their experiences are representative of countless numbers of single immigrant women who came to Australia during the nineteenth century.

Author : Susan Arthure
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1743056192
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish South Australia written by Susan Arthure and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its capital is named after German-born Queen Adelaide, its main street after her English husband, King William IV, so it is not surprising that little is known about South Australia's Irish background. However, the first European to discover Adelaide's River Torrens in 1836 was Cork-born and educated George Kingston, who was deputy surveyor to Colonel Light; the river was named in turn for Derryman Colonel Torrens, Chairman of the South Australian Colonisation Commission. Adelaide's first judge and first police commissioner were immigrants from Kerry and Limerick. Irish South Australia charts Irish settlement from as far north as Pekina, to the state's south-east and Mount Gambier. It follows the diverse fortunes of the Irish-born elite such as George Kingston and Charles Harvey Bagot, as well as doctors, farmers, lawyers, orphans, parliamentarians, pastoralists and publicans who made South Australia their home, with various shades of political and religious beliefs: Anglicans, Catholics, Dissenters, Federationalists, Freemasons, Home Rulers, nationalists, and Orangemen. Irish markers can be found in South Australian archaeology, architecture, geography and history. Some of these are visible in the hundreds of Irish place names that dot the South Australian landscape, such as Clare, Donnybrook, Dublin, Kilkenny, Navan, Rostrevor, Tipperary, and Tralee (as Tarlee). The book's editors are twentieth-century Irish immigrants from Dublin (Dymphna Lonergan), Portadown (Fidelma Breen), Trim (Susan Arthure), and by descent from eight Irish-born (Stephanie James).

Author : Dianne Hall
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742244394
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of the Irish in Australia written by Dianne Hall and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish immigrants – although despised as inferior on racial and religious grounds and feared as a threat to national security – were one of modern Australia’s most influential founding peoples. In his landmark 1986 book The Irish in Australia, Patrick O’Farrell argued that the Irish were central to the evolution of Australia’s national character through their refusal to accept a British identity. A New History of the Irish in Australia takes a fresh approach. It draws on source materials not used until now and focuses on topics previously neglected, such as race, stereotypes, gender, popular culture, employment discrimination, immigration restriction, eugenics, crime and mental health. This important book also considers the Irish in Australia within the worldwide Irish diaspora. Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall reveal what Irish Australians shared with Irish communities elsewhere, while reminding us that the Irish–Australian experience was – and is – unique. ‘A necessary corrective to the false unity of the term “Anglo-Celtic”, this beautifully controlled and clear-sighted intervention is timely and welcome. It gives us not just a history of the Irish in Australia, but a skilful account of how identity is formed relationally, often through sectarian, class, ethnic and racial divisions. A masterful book.’ — Professor Rónán McDonald, University of Melbourne

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visible Women written by Eric Richards and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visible women: female immigrants in colonial Australia (Visible immigrants 4)

Author : Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136200738
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash written by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry – in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernizing world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.

Author : Kay Moloney Caball
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750959541
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kerry Girls written by Kay Moloney Caball and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry Workhouses of Dingle/Kenmare/Killarney and Listowel in 1849/1850, as part of the Earl Grey Scheme. From scenes of destitution and misery, the girls, some of whom spoke only Irish, set off to the other side of the world without any idea of what lay ahead. This book tells of their 'selection' and shipping to New South Wales and Adelaide, their subsequent apprenticeship, marriage and life in the colony.

Author : Deborah Oxley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446778
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convict Maids written by Deborah Oxley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of female transports to Australia reveals their significant contribution to the new economy.

Author : Susan Arthure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781923042339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women in the Antipodes written by Susan Arthure and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories in history habitually relate the deeds of men but less frequently speak of the equally important contribution of women. When Irish immigrants began arriving in the new colonies of Australia and New Zealand they energetically contributed to the development of a new culture. This was especially true in the area of social progress.Irish Women in the Antipodes: Foregrounded is a collection of Irish women's contributions to life in the Antipodes, stories that have been neglected or insufficiently acknowledged. The contributors have used all available tools to find these women in the archives, public records, newspapers, and family histories, taking them from the proverbial footnotes of history to the foreground.The first seven chapters focus on Irish women in South Australia, an under-researched group among the Irish diaspora regardless of gender, and while there are new accounts of women that readers may know of such as Mary Lee and Bee Walshe, this volume introduces us to many more of these pioneering women whose hidden lives have now been brought to the fore.