Irish Women in Colonial Australia

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Ireland provided the majority of female convicts for the first 40 years of Australia's penal colony, and Irish women made up a significant proportion of assisted and free immigrants throughout the 19th century. The women of Ireland, bound or free, have therefore left a significant mark on Australia's population and culture. Who were these women Why did they end up there And what did they make of their lives The ten essays in this volume present a view of convicts and rebels, murderers and disorderly women, wives and mothers, workers and the new rich, country maids and slum dwellers. Each essay reveals something of Australia's diverse past.

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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.