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A new history of the Irish in Australia /

Irish immigrants -- although despised as inferior on racial and religious grounds and feared as a threat to national security -- were one of modern Australia's most influential founding peoples. In his landmark 1986 book The Irish in Australia, Patrick O'Farrell argued that the Irish were...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Malcolm, Elizabeth (Autor), Hall, Dianne, Ph.D (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Half Title; Title; Contents; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Irish in Australia; Section One: Race; Chapter 1: The Irish race; Chapter 2: The Irish and Indigenous Australians: friends or foes?; Chapter 3: The Irish and the Chinese in white Australia; Chapter 4: Irish immigration, 1901-39: race, politics and eugenics; Section Two: Stereotypes; Chapter 5 : Irish men in Australian popular culture, 1790s-1920s; Chapter 6: Employment: Bridget need not apply; Chapter 7: Crime and the Irish: from vagrancy to the gallows; Chapter 8: Madness and the Irish; Section Three: Politics
  • Chapter 9: Colonial politics: Daniel O'Connell's 'Tail' and the Catholic Irish premiersChapter 10: Catholic Irish Australians in the political arena after 1900: from sectarianism to the split; Epilogue: Irish Australia in the 21st century; Bibliography; Notes; Index; Backcover