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Title: | The luck of the Irish: How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia | Contributor(s): | Smith, Babette (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17439 | Abstract: | The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the NSW coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived, guided to safety by local Aboriginal people. They landed at a time when the so-called slave colony was at its height, ruled by the lash and the chain gang. Yet as Babette Smith tracked the lives of the people aboard the Hive, she discovered a very different story. Most were assigned to work on farms or in businesses, building a better life than they possibly could have experienced in Ireland. Surprisingly, in the workforce they found power, which gave rise to the characteristic Australian culture later described by DH Lawrence: 'Nobody felt better than anybody else, or higher'. The Luck of the Irish is a fascinating portrait of colonial life in the mid-19th which reveals how the Irish helped lay the foundations of the Australia we know today. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Allen & Unwin | Place of Publication: | Crows Nest, Australia | ISBN: | 9781742378121 | Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 210305 British History 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430304 British history 430302 Australian history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950503 Understanding Australias Past | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130703 Understanding Australia’s past | HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | Publisher/associated links: | http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an52751115 http://www.babettesmith.com/ |
Extent of Pages: | 292 |
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Appears in Collections: | Book |
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