Letters to Séan Ó Lúing, Alan Queale and others

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File MS 22926

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Correspondence and papers collected by Alan Queale of Queensland concerning the newspaper Wild Goose, produced on the convict ship Hougoumont in 1867, and Fenian convicts transported to Western Australia, 1967-1968. The correspondence is between S. O'Luing, A. Queale, Reverend J.S. Moynihan (Perth), Sheila Johnson (Sydney), the Mitchell Library and others, 1967-1968, and discuss the Wild Goose, its editor John Flood, John B. O'Reilly, O'Luing's book Fremantle Mission, and Irish in Australia. There are also photocopies of Wild Goose and of the death certificates of J. Flood and C. Keane, cuttings from the Melbourne Advocate of articles by J.S. Moynihan on Fenian prisoners in Western Australia (1968) and other cuttings and notes.

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