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Author O'Farrell, Patrick, 1933-2003

Title Letters from Irish Australia, 1825-1929 / Patrick O'Farrell ; text of letters edited by Brian Trainor
Published Sydney : New South Wales University Press ; Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 1984

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 MELB  994.0049162 OFA-L  AVAILABLE
Description 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series Modern history series ; [1]
Modern history series ; 1
Contents Includes index
Summary These letters, ranging from those of convicts writing to their wives in the 1820's, through accounts of the voyage out, and pioneering life in mid-centiry, through love letters, to short stories of success and failure to master the land, to the remarkable family saga (1883-1929) which ends the book
Analysis Australia - Emigration and immigration - History - Sources
Australia - emigration & immigration
Ireland - Emigration and immigration - History - Sources
Irish - Australia - Correspondence
Irish - Australia - History - Sources
Irish immigrants. Australia. Correspondence, diaries, etc
Notes Ill. on lining papers
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 232-233
Subject Immigrants -- Australia -- History.
Irish -- Australia -- Correspondence.
Irish -- Australia -- History -- Sources.
Irish -- Australia.
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114312 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123042 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Author Trainor, Brian.
Ulster Historical Foundation.
LC no. 84241601
ISBN 0868401536
0868402354
0901905321