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John Forrest DD, the exuberant scholar/priest recruited in Ireland in 1859 to set up the Catholic St John's College at Sydney University, found life in colonial NSW much to his liking. However, it soon became clear that divisions within the Church, even more than a shortage of candidates for degrees, would put paid to his high hopes for the college. Relations between the colony's English archbishops and Irish ecclesiastics were often poisonous, and...
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When Dalley, a convict's son who became the first Australian Privy Councilor, died in 1888, The Bulletin described him as 'a man of many splendors, both of intellect and heart', and 'in many respects the most notable man Sydney has given birth to'. Nine years later, some 10,000 people gathered in Hyde Park for the unveiling of his statue. A plaque in St Paul's Cathedral, London, commemorates him. Clearly someone with a story worth telling. Unconventional...
3) Irish Gold
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One route to wealth during the 1850s and '60s gold rushes was uncovering a nugget or glittering seam. A much more certain alternative was owning inns on roads to the goldfields. Irish Gold tells the story of two enterprising Irish settlers, Jeremiah Lehane and Miles Murphy, who adopted the second course and, with their families, led action-packed lives in the Yass-Young region of southern NSW. The book is also a celebration of those optimistic times,...
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