Irish Women in Colonial Australia
| By: | Trevor McClaughlin |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd |
| Print ISBN: | 9781864487152 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781743439364 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A fascinating trip into colonial history, the result of collaboration between family historians, genealogists and social historians
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?