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Irish Women in Colonial Australia

Trevor McClaughlin

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English
Allen & Unwin
01 October 1998
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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Imprint:   Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   318g
ISBN:   9781864487152
ISBN 10:   1864487151
Pages:   246
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Recommended Age:   From
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Trevor McClaughlin is the author of From Shamrock To Wattle (1985, 1990) and Barefoot + Pregnant: Irish Famine Orphans In Australia (1991). A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge, he teaches history at Macquarie University. Contributors include: Portia Robinson, Robin Haines, Richard Reid, Richard Davis, Eric Richards, David Fitzpatrick, Pauline Rule, Libby Connors, Bernadette Turner.

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