Research Catalog
Letters from Irish Australia, 1825-1929
- Title
- Letters from Irish Australia, 1825-1929 / Patrick O'Farrell ; text of letters edited by Brian Trainor.
- Author
- O'Farrell, Patrick, 1933-2003.
- Publication
- Sydney, NSW : New South Wales University Press ; Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 1984.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DU122.I7 O34 1984 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 244 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- The modern history series
- Uniform Title
- Modern history series (Kensington, N.S.W.)
- Subject
- Irish > Australia > Correspondence
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Race relations - Attitudes
- Race relations - Violent
- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
- Irish
- Irish > Australia
- Irish immigrants. Australia. Correspondence, diaries, etc
- Irlandais > Australie > Correspondance
- Australia
- Australia
- Australia > Minorities > History
- Australie > Émigration et immigration > Sources
- Irlande > Émigration et immigration > Sources
- Genre/Form
- Personal correspondence
- Note
- New Zealand author.
- Reprinted in pbk.: 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN
- 0901905321 (Ulster Historical Foundation)
- 9780901905321 (Ulster Historical Foundation)
- 0868401536 (hbk.)
- 9780868401539 (hbk.)
- 0868402354 (pbk.)
- 9780868402352 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 84241601
- OCLC
- ocm12298235
- 12298235
- SCSB-1151434
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library