The luck of the Irish : how a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia / Babette Smith.
Publication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2014.Description: xi, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781742378121
- Convicts -- New South Wales -- History
- Irish -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- Shipwreck victims -- New South Wales -- History
- Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- History
- Convict ships -- Australia
- Irish -- New South Wales -- History
- Shipwrecks -- Australia -- History
- Penal transportation -- New South Wales -- History
- Irish -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851
- New South Wales -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Australia -- History -- 19th century
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994.02 SMI | Available | 057847 |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 254-261) and index.
The author of the bestselling Cargo of Women and Australia's Birthstain tracks the lives of Irish convicts. The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the NSW coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived.