Full title: Irish women in colonial Australia / edited by Trevor McClaughlin.

Author/creator: McClaughlin, Trevor, 1944-.

Date: 2015..

Call Numbers: LP/994/MCC

Record Identifier: 74VKOyz3WRgl

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xvii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., , , , 1. 'Thank God it can be no worse': Irish women transported to New South Wales, c. 1788-1828 -- an Irish-Australian identity / Portia Robinson -- 2. 'Unfit to die': Irish murderesses as Van Diemen's Land colonists / Richard Davis -- 3. 'The priest made a bother about it': the travails of 'that unhappy sisterhood' bound for colonial Australia / Robin Haines -- 4. Dora MacDonagh and her 'sisters': Irish female assisted immigration to New South Wales, c. 1848-1870 / Richard Reid -- 5. '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 and Ann Herraman -- 6. 'I cannot do any more': resistance, respectability and ruin -- recapturing the Irish orphan girls in the Moreton Bay districts / Libby Connors and Bernadette Turner -- 7. '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 -- 8. 'I was nowhere else': casualties of colonisation in eastern Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century / Trevor McClaughlin -- 9. 'This is the place that foolish girls are knowing': reading the letters of emigrant Irish women in colonial Australia / David Fitzpatrick.

Publishers: Australia : ReadHowYouWant, 2015.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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MMS ID: 991022635919702626