Irish Convict Lives edited by Bob Reece

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to foredges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine.

Irish Convict Lives traces the Irish and Australian careers of some noteworthy Irish convict men and women. Eight original essays put faces on the 50,000 otherwise anonymous statistics.

The authors answer basic questions about these involuntary nation-builders - who they were, their lives in Ireland, how they came to be transported and how they fared in the Australian colonies.