The Irish in Australia, (1986)

Component identifier:

Series 10

Content Summary:

First published in 1986 by New South Wales University Press, The Irish in Australia provides an historical analysis of the contribution of the Irish to Australian national life.

The series includes statistics on population and emigration, photocopies of British, Australian Federal and State Parliamentary papers relating to emigration from Ireland to the Australian colonies, census statistics on the Irish-born including statistical information on marriages, articles on Australia-Irish diplomatic relations. There is a photograph of delegates who attended the Irish Race Convention summoned in Melbourne in November 1919 (item 18).

See also series 24, Austral Light.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Library purchased the original instalment of papers from O'Farrell in June 1980. O'Farrell donated subsequent consignments to the Library in August 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984 and in 2000. Other papers were purchased from O'Farrell in 1998 and 1999. Material acquired in May 1984 and in February 1998 pertaining to Dr Albert Dryer has been transferred to the papers of Albert Dryer (MS 6610).Further material was added to the O'Farrell Papers in 2006.

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Academic
History

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