Download or read book Chained to the Soil on the Plains of Emu written by Lorraine Stacker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Shame written by Thomas Keneally and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of all their sorrows manage to keep their souls. This story of oppression, famine, and emigration--a principal chapter in the story of man's inhumanity to man--becomes in Keneally's hands an act of resurrection; Irishmen and Irishwomen of a century and a half ago live once more within the pages of this book." --Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. The forebears of Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List, were victims of that tragedy, and in The Great Shame Keneally has written an astonishing, monumental work that tells the full story of the Irish diaspora with the narrative grip and flair of a great novel. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this masterly book surveys eighty years of Irish history through the eyes of political prisoners--including Keneally's ancestors--who left Ireland in chains and eventually found glory, in one form or another, in Australia and America. We meet William Smith O'Brien, leader of an uprising at the height of the Irish Famine, who rose from solitary confinement in Australia to become the Mandela of his age; Thomas Francis Meagher, whose escape from Australian captivity led to a glittering American career as an orator, a Union general, and governor of Montana; John Mitchel, who became a Confederate newspaper reporter, gave two of his sons to the Southern cause, was imprisoned with Jefferson Davis--and returned to Ireland to become mayor of Tipperary; and John Boyle O'Reilly, who fled a life sentence in Australia to become one of nineteenth-century America's leading literary lights. Through the lives of many such men and women--famous and obscure, some heroes and some fools (most a little of both), all of them stubborn, acutely sensitive, and devastatingly charming--we become immersed in the Irish experience and its astonishing history. From Ireland to Canada and the United States to the bush towns of Australia, we are plunged into stories of tragedy, survival, and triumph. All are vividly portrayed in Keneally's spellbinding prose, as he reveals the enormous influence the exiled Irish have had on the English-speaking world. "A terrible and personal saga, history delivered with a scholar's density of detail but with the individualizing power of a multi-talented novelist." --William Kennedy

Download or read book Exiles from Erin written by Bob Reece and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-09-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1791 the "Queen" sailed from Cobh in Cork with the first cargo of Irish convicts destined for New South Wales. During the next 76 years, Ireland supplied 40,000 of all the convicts transported to Australia. This book looks at what happened to these exiles.

Download or read book Fettered Frontier written by Jennifer Harrison and published by Boolarong Press and Brisbane History Group. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Jennifer Harrison’s latest book Fettered Frontier, Founding the Moreton Bay Settlement 1822–1826, a companion volume to Shackled: Female Convicts at Moreton Bay 1826 –1839 (2016) investigates the struggle to locate and establish an outpost in remote Moreton Bay. She uses original government correspondence, diaries, journals and maps and also examines the many mangled foundation stories from the time of the original site at Redcliffe and its removal to a location on the Brisbane River. The search for the river involved several exploratory voyages, the discovery of convict timber getters who had totally lost their bearings and the helpful local Aboriginal people. The stream, shrouded by mangroves, was finally discovered. A significantly sized waterway, it was appropriately named for Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane as was the campsite on its bank. Much research has concentrated on accurately re-creating economic, climatic and legal back stories together with defining the characters who made the decisions in London, Port Jackson (Sydney) and locally as well as the convicts who undertook the heavy manual work. Happy 200th Birthday, Brisbane — you have come a long way.

Download or read book Australian Verse from 1805 written by Geoffrey Dutton and published by Rigby (AU). This book was released on 1976 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Southerly written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1939-1944 include the Annual report of the Australian English Association; v. for 1945-1946 include the Annual report of the Sydney Branch of the English Association.

Download or read book Farewell to Old England written by Hugh Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times written by Douglas Alexander Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Working Forest written by Les A. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first selection from all Les Murray's prose to be published in Australia. It is named after the long autobriographical essay, 'In a Working Forest', included here. Readers familiar only with Murray as a poet might be surprised at the volume and quality of his prose. It ranges from brief and amusing occasional pieces to some of the wisest essays written in the country. The subjects include republicanism, religion, Antarctica, sexuality, the great divide between the bush and the city, and, of course, poetry."--Back cover.

Download or read book The Pacific Book of Bush Ballads written by Douglas Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse written by Les A. Murray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by one of the world's leading poets, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse has been acclaimed by critics such as Helen Gardner and Peter Porter as the finest anthology of its kind. It surveys the best and most characterful Australian poetry from the Dreamtime to the mid-1990s. For this new edition, many of Murray's earlier selections have been revised, with replacement work from key poets, and 26 new poets have been added, including John A. Scott, Alison Croggon, John Kinsella, and Craig Sherborne.