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Exiles from Erin

Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Bob Reece

    1. Murdoch University, Western Australia

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Bob Reece
    Pages 1-9

  3. Convicts of the Queen

    • Keith Johnson, Michael Flynn
    Pages 10-26

  4. General Joseph Holt

    • Ruan O’Donnell
    Pages 27-56

  5. The Ballagh Barracks ‘Rioters’

    • Niamh Brennan
    Pages 57-84

  6. ‘A Strange Compound of Good and Ill’: Laurence Hynes Halloran

    • Kelvin Grose
    Pages 85-111

  7. The Ballad of Maitland Jail

    • Bob Reece
    Pages 112-134

  8. The True History of Bernard Reilly

    • Bob Reece
    Pages 135-150

  9. Frank the Poet

    • Bob Reece
    Pages 151-183

  10. The Connerys

    • Bob Reece
    Pages 184-217

  11. Ned Kelly’s Father

    • Bob Reece
    Pages 218-245

  12. Patrick O’Donohoe: Outcast of the Exiles

    • Richard Davis
    Pages 246-283

  13. The Strange Career of William de la Poer Beresford

    • Geoffrey Bolton
    Pages 284-303

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 304-336
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About this book

In April 1791 the "Queen" sailed from Cobh in Cork with the first cargo of Irish convicts destined for New South Wales. During the next 76 years, Ireland supplied 40,000 of all the convicts transported to Australia. This book looks at what happened to these exiles.

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  • Murdoch University, Western Australia

    Bob Reece

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