The Irish in Australia: Rogues and Reformers: First Fleet to Federation by Jarlath Ronayne

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with front cover right tail corner now protected with book tape. Scratch to half-title page. Previous owner has stamped half-title page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Body text and binding are still very good.

2nd revised edition.

The Irish in Australia is a highly readable and controversial account of the extraordinary influence of a network of Irish graduates on law, learning, and politics in nineteenth-century Australia.

The meticulously researched narrative weaves elegantly in and out of the established Australian colonial story, negotiating major events and characters, as well as arcane byways, with equal assurance. Jarlath Ronayne writes with engaging irony and wit, offering a radically different perspective on the inexhaustibly interesting subject: the Irish in Australia—and on the Australian story generally. (back cover)