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Book The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales

Download or read book The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales written by Bob Reece and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the pre-history of Irish convict transportation to New South Wales that began with the Queen in April 1791. It traces earlier attempts to revive the Trans-Atlantic convict trade and frustrated efforts by Irish authorities to join in the Botany Bay scheme after 1786. The nine Irish shipments to North America and the West Indies are described in detail for the first time, including the dramatic outcomes in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the Leeward Islands.

Book Irish Convicts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Reece
  • Publisher : Department of Modern History University College Dublin
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Irish Convicts written by Bob Reece and published by Department of Modern History University College Dublin. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Convict Settlers of Australia

Download or read book The Convict Settlers of Australia written by Leslie Lloyd Robson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Lloyd Robson's classic study of the origins and crimes of Australia's convict settlers which introduced a valuable core of hard facts into a discussion previously dominated by anecdote and polemic. Working from a statistical sampling of convicts, and writing with sympathetic insight, Lloyd Robson examined the convicts' records: their social and economic background, age, religion and occupation; and individual cases.

Book The Cambridge Economic History of Australia

Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Australia written by Simon Ville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.

Book Botany Bay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Con Costello
  • Publisher : Irish American Book Company
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Botany Bay written by Con Costello and published by Irish American Book Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 45,000 Irish convicts (men and women) transported to Australia between 1791 and 1853. The book investigates the social background of the period and the procedures under which the accused were tried, imprisoned and transported.

Book The Convict Ships  1787 1868

Download or read book The Convict Ships 1787 1868 written by Charles Bateson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exiles from Erin

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.

Book Empire of Hell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilary M. Carey
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-14
  • ISBN : 1107043085
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Empire of Hell written by Hilary M. Carey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

Book Eighteenth Century Criminal Transportation

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Criminal Transportation written by G. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in the colonies, exploring at the local level the contrasts in sentencing, shipping and settlement of convicts in America. The central myths about transportation prevalent in the eighteenth century, particularly that most felons returned, are examined in the context of the burgeoning print culture of criminal biographies and newspaper stories. In addition, the exchange of representations between the two sides of the Atlantic, and the changing American reaction to convicts, are placed within the growing transatlantic debate on transportation before the American Revolution. Above all, the realities of escape, of convicts running away and returning to England, are subject to systematic investigation for the first time.

Book The Wreck of the Neva  The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Women Aboard

Download or read book The Wreck of the Neva The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Women Aboard written by Cal McCarthy and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King's Island in Australia and sank with the loss of 224 lives - one of the worst shipwrecks in maritime history. The authors have comprehensively researched sources in Ireland, Australia and the UK to reconstruct in fascinating detail the stories of these women. Most perished beneath the ocean waves, but for others the journey from their poverty stricken and criminal pasts continued towards hope of freedom and prosperity on the far side of the world. At a time when Australia is once again becoming a new home for a generation of migrating Irish, it is appropriate that the formative historical links between the two countries be remembered.

Book Floating Prisons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne McMahon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-05-05
  • ISBN : 9781925043341
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Floating Prisons written by Anne McMahon and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people think of Australia's convict past as decidedly English. Anne McMahon tells the story of the Irish prisoners roped into the British transportation scheme. Poverty, civil unrest and overcrowded prisons in Ireland from 1823 to 1837 led to thousands of men being sentenced to transportation to Australia. They were confined mainly to hulks ......

Book The Fatal Shore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Hughes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781860461507
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fatal Shore reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history

Book Ireland s New Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Campbell
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780299223304
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Ireland s New Worlds written by Malcolm Campbell and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to another “New World,” Australia. Ireland’s New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the United States and Australia. In a profound challenge to the national histories that frame most accounts of the Irish diaspora, Malcolm Campbell highlights the ways that economic, social, and cultural conditions shaped distinct experiences for Irish immigrants in each country, and sometimes in different parts of the same country. From differences in the level of hostility that Irish immigrants faced to the contrasting economies of the United States and Australia, Campbell finds that there was much more to the experiences of Irish immigrants than their essential “Irishness.” America’s Irish, for example, were primarily drawn into the population of unskilled laborers congregating in cities, while Australia’s Irish, like their fellow colonialists, were more likely to engage in farming. Campbell shows how local conditions intersected with immigrants’ Irish backgrounds and traditions to create surprisingly varied experiences in Ireland’s new worlds. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association “Well conceived and thoroughly researched . . . . This clearly written, thought-provoking work fulfills the considerable ambitions of comparative migration studies.”—Choice

Book Australia s Birthstain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Babette Smith
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011-03-04
  • ISBN : 1459613465
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book Australia s Birthstain written by Babette Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past? Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia....

Book Migration in Irish History 1607 2007

Download or read book Migration in Irish History 1607 2007 written by Patrick Fitzgerald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration - people moving in as immigrants, around as migrants, and out as emigrants - is a major theme of Irish history. This is the first book to offer both a survey of the last four centuries and an integrated analysis of migration, reflecting a more inclusive definition of the 'people of Ireland'.