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Keneally, Thomas.
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The great shame :
a story of the Irish in the Old World and the New /
Thomas Keneally.
New edition
Milsons Point, N.S.W. :
Random House,
1999.
731 pages , 30 pages of plates :
illustrations, portraits, maps ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographic refereces (p. 687-[697]) and index.
"In the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. 'The Great Shame', a remarkable work of non-fiction, traces the three causes of this depletion: the famine; the emigrations; and the transportations to Australia. Based on unique research among little-used sources, this masterly book covers eighty years of Irish history, told through the intimate lens of political prisoners - some of them ancestors of the keneally family - who served time as convicts in Australia.
Beginning with Hugh Larkin, a twenty-four-year-old 'Ribbonman' transported for life in 1833, 'The Great Shame' tells of the Ireland these prisoners came from and the Australia they encountered. It brings us close to Irish women such as Esther, wife of Larkin, and to the funeral Lady Wilde, mother of Oscar, friend and collaborator of notable Irish prisoners. But we also encounter the 'Female Factory' and the Irish convict women who married humble protest criminals, and we learn of the often desperate survival methods of 'transportation-widowed' women left in Ireland. Throughout the nineteenth century, Australian and American organisations also participated in the extraordinary escapes or attempted escapes from Australia of some of the most famous Irish politicals, including William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher and John Mitchel.
Through many such lives, famous and obscure, we see not only the daily experience of famine sufferers and Irish activists, but also the astonishing history of the Irish diaspora: to the St Lawrence, to New York, to the high plains of Montana and the bush towns of New South Wales. All of them are vividly present in this epic tale of Australian imprisonment, Irish disaster and New World redemption." -- Back cover
1800 - 1899
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Prisoners
Ireland
History
19th century.
Convicts
History
19th century.
Convicts
Ireland
History
19th century.
Famines
Ireland
History
19th century.
Irish
Australia
History
19th century.
Irish
United States
History
19th century.
Political prisoners
Australia
History
19th century.
Political prisoners
Ireland
History
19th century.
Ireland
History.
Irish Americans.
Irish
English-speaking countries
History.
Civilization, Modern
Irish influences.
Irish
Foreign countries
History.
Civilization.
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Irish influences.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Irish.
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Irish
Foreign countries.
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Ireland
History
Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland
History
19th century.
Ireland
Civilization
19th century.
Ireland
Emigration and immigration
History
19th century.
English-speaking countries.
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