A New History Of The Irish In Australia

Author : Dianne Hall,Elizabeth Malcolm
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781742244396

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A New History of the Irish in Australia by Dianne Hall,Elizabeth Malcolm Pdf

Irish immigrants – although despised as inferior on racial and religious grounds and feared as a threat to national security – were one of modern Australia’s most influential founding peoples. In his landmark 1986 book The Irish in Australia, Patrick O’Farrell argued that the Irish were central to the evolution of Australia’s national character through their refusal to accept a British identity. A New History of the Irish in Australia takes a fresh approach. It draws on source materials not used until now and focuses on topics previously neglected, such as race, stereotypes, gender, popular culture, employment discrimination, immigration restriction, eugenics, crime and mental health. This important book also considers the Irish in Australia within the worldwide Irish diaspora. Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall reveal what Irish Australians shared with Irish communities elsewhere, while reminding us that the Irish–Australian experience was – and is – unique. ‘A necessary corrective to the false unity of the term “Anglo-Celtic”, this beautifully controlled and clear-sighted intervention is timely and welcome. It gives us not just a history of the Irish in Australia, but a skilful account of how identity is formed relationally, often through sectarian, class, ethnic and racial divisions. A masterful book.’ — Professor Rónán McDonald, University of Melbourne

Author : Elizabeth Malcolm Hall,Elizabeth Malcolm,Dianne,Dianne Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0369300262

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A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm Hall,Elizabeth Malcolm,Dianne,Dianne Hall Pdf

In 1986, Patrick O'Farrell published a landmark book, The Irish in Australia. This was an important volume given that after the English, the Irish were the largest population in Australia between 1788 and 1945, comprising nearly 25 per cent of all non-Indigenous Australians by 1901. Drawing on source materials unused until now, A New History of the Irish in Australia focuses on key areas previously ignored, including race. Indeed, the Irish were seen as a different, inferior ethnic group, despised and feared. Catholic Irish were often seen as a threat to the empire in their supposed failure to show loyalty to the crown. Their alleged recklessness and moral shortcomings meant Irish men and women were perceived as a threat to good manners and society, often the butt of jokes in popular culture. This important book also looks at the Australian-Irish experience in the context of the worldwide Irish diaspora, revealing much about what Irish-Australians shared with Irish communities elsewhere and showing that the Irish-Australian experience was unique.

Author : Elizabeth Malcolm,Dianne Hall (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1782053034

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A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm,Dianne Hall (Ph. D.) Pdf

Irish immigrants -- although despised as inferior on racial and religious grounds and feared as a threat to national security -- were one of modern Australia's most influential founding peoples.In his landmark 1986 book The Irish in Australia, Patrick O'Farrell argued that the Irish were central to the evolution of Australia's national character through their refusal to accept a British identity.A New History of the Irish in Australia takes a fresh approach. It draws on source materials not used until now and focuses on topics previously neglected, such as race, stereotypes, gender, popular culture, employment discrimination, immigration restriction, eugenics, crime and mental health.This important book also considers the Irish in Australia within the worldwide Irish diaspora. Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall reveal what Irish Australians shared with Irish communities elsewhere, while reminding us that the Irish-Australian experience was -- and is -- unique.

Author : Susan Arthure,Fidelma Breen,Stephanie James,Dymphna Lonergan
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743056196

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Irish South Australia by Susan Arthure,Fidelma Breen,Stephanie James,Dymphna Lonergan Pdf

Its capital is named after German-born Queen Adelaide, its main street after her English husband, King William IV, so it is not surprising that little is known about South Australia's Irish background. However, the first European to discover Adelaide's River Torrens in 1836 was Cork-born and educated George Kingston, who was deputy surveyor to Colonel Light; the river was named in turn for Derryman Colonel Torrens, Chairman of the South Australian Colonisation Commission. Adelaide's first judge and first police commissioner were immigrants from Kerry and Limerick. Irish South Australia charts Irish settlement from as far north as Pekina, to the state's south-east and Mount Gambier. It follows the diverse fortunes of the Irish-born elite such as George Kingston and Charles Harvey Bagot, as well as doctors, farmers, lawyers, orphans, parliamentarians, pastoralists and publicans who made South Australia their home, with various shades of political and religious beliefs: Anglicans, Catholics, Dissenters, Federationalists, Freemasons, Home Rulers, nationalists, and Orangemen. Irish markers can be found in South Australian archaeology, architecture, geography and history. Some of these are visible in the hundreds of Irish place names that dot the South Australian landscape, such as Clare, Donnybrook, Dublin, Kilkenny, Navan, Rostrevor, Tipperary, and Tralee (as Tarlee). The book's editors are twentieth-century Irish immigrants from Dublin (Dymphna Lonergan), Portadown (Fidelma Breen), Trim (Susan Arthure), and by descent from eight Irish-born (Stephanie James).

Author : Malcolm Campbell
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0299223302

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Ireland's New Worlds by Malcolm Campbell Pdf

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

Author : Graeme Morton,David A. Wilson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773588813

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Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples by Graeme Morton,David A. Wilson Pdf

The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants had with Indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia. The Irish and Scots were among the most active and enthusiastic participants in what one contributor describes as "the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history." At the same time, some settlers attempted to understand Indigenous society rather than destroy it, while others incorporated a romanticized view of Natives into a radical critique of European society, and others still empathized with Natives as fellow victims of imperialism. These essays investigate the extent to which the condition of being Irish and Scottish affected settlers' attitudes to Indigenous peoples, and examine the political, social, religious, cultural, and economic dimensions of their interactions. Presenting a variety of viewpoints, the editors reach the provocative conclusion that the Scottish and Irish origins of settlers were less important in determining attitudes and behaviour than were the specific circumstances in which those settlers found themselves at different times and places in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Contributors include Donald Harman Akenson (Queen's), John Eastlake (College Cork), Marjory Harper (Aberdeen), Andrew Hinson (Toronto), Michele Holmgren (Mount Royal), Kevin Hutchings (Northern British Columbia), Anne Lederman (Royal Conservatory of Music), Patricia A. McCormack (Alberta), Mark G. McGowan (Toronto), Ann McGrath (Australian National), Cian T. McMahon (Nevada), Graeme Morton (Guelph), Michael Newton (Xavier), Pádraig Ó Siadhail (Saint Mary's), Brad Patterson (Victoria University of Wellington), Beverly Soloway (Lakehead), and David A. Wilson (Toronto).

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064765350

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Australia by Frank Welsh Pdf

"Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land is a major new account that places Australia's history fully within a global context, drawing on sources from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Canada, as well as within Australia itself." "In a compelling narrative, acclaimed historian Frank Welsh traces the history of the land from scattered convict settlements to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and on to today's thriving independent nation, exposing many national myths in the process. This book also explores the dark side of Australia's history: the long-continued "White Australia" policy, which bedeviled foreign policy for more than a century; the still-tortured official relationship with the Aboriginal peoples; the subordination of women; and the flaws in the constitution. Also examined is Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbors, and its isolation from Britain and the United States, its traditional allies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Malcolm Campbell
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299334208

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Ireland's Farthest Shores by Malcolm Campbell Pdf

Irish people have had a long and complex engagement with the lands and waters encompassing the Pacific world. As the European presence in the Pacific intensified from the late eighteenth century, the Irish entered this oceanic space as beachcombers, missionaries, traders, and colonizers. During the nineteenth century, economic distress in Ireland and rapid population growth on the Pacific Ocean's eastern and western shores set in motion large-scale migration that exerted a deep political, social, and economic impact across the Pacific. Malcolm Campbell examines the rich history of Irish experiences on land and at sea, offering new perspectives on migration and mobility in the Pacific world and of the Irish role in the establishment and maintenance of the British Empire. This volume investigates the extensive transnational connections that developed among Irish immigrants and their descendants across this vast and unique oceanic space, ties that illuminate how the Irish participated in the making of the Pacific world and how the Pacific world made them.

Author : John P. Cullinane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Folk dancing, Irish
ISBN : 095279523X

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Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing in Ireland, England, New Zealand, North America and Australia by John P. Cullinane Pdf

Author : James Francis Hogan
Publisher : London : Ward & Downey
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Australia
ISBN : WISC:89080099203

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The Irish in Australia by James Francis Hogan Pdf

Author : Trevor McClaughlin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781864487152

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Irish Women in Colonial Australia by Trevor McClaughlin Pdf

A fascinating trip into colonial history, the result of collaboration between family historians, genealogists and social historians

Author : Patrick O'Farrell
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australia
ISBN : 086840635X

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The Irish in Australia by Patrick O'Farrell Pdf

A new and revised edition of this acclaimed, award-winning book, it features a new chapter considering the idea of being Irish in Australia today and how this has changed from being a liability - identified with poverty, ignorance, low social and occupational status - to, since the 1980s, a fashionable asset.

Author : Oliver MacDonagh,W. F. Mandle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0709946171

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Ireland and Irish-Australia by Oliver MacDonagh,W. F. Mandle Pdf

Author : Niall Whelehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317963226

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Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History by Niall Whelehan Pdf

This book explores the benefits and challenges of transnational history for the study of modern Ireland. In recent years the word "transnational" has become more and more conspicuous in history writing across the globe, with scholars seeking to move beyond national and local frameworks when investigating the past. Yet transnational approaches remain rare in Irish historical scholarship. This book argues that the broader contexts and scales associated with transnational history are ideally suited to open up new questions on many themes of critical importance to Ireland’s past and present. They also provide an important means of challenging ideas of Irish exceptionalism. The chapters included here open up new perspectives on central debates and events in Irish history. They illuminate numerous transnational lives, follow flows and ties across Irish borders, and trace networks and links with Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Australia and the British Empire. This book provides specialists and students with examples of different concepts and ways of doing transnational history. Non-specialists will be interested in the new perspectives offered here on a rich variety of topics, particularly the two major events in modern Irish history, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Rising.

Author : Patrick James O'Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050768269

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The Irish in Australia by Patrick James O'Farrell Pdf

"Since the first fleet of 1788, the Irish have been coming to Australia. They were the beginning of a central, colourful and profoundly influential element in Australia's evolution into a nation different and separate from Britain. Commencing with Irish convicts, feared and despised - 'nearly as wild themselves as the cattle' - following free Irish immigrants - and settlers into the often hostile texture of colonial life, they came to see themselves as patriotic Australians, integrating into all levels and facets of national life and character, many occupying the highest positions in the land in government, law and commerce." "This edition features a revised final chapter, which deals with the changing relationship between Australians, new Irish and Irish Australians. In examining these changes, Patrick O'Farrell considers the effect of major government initiatives associated with the policies of multiculturalism introduced in Australia from the 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved