Sinners, Saints & Settlers: A Journey Through Irish Australia Tapa blanda - 2010

National Museum of Australia, Australia, 2010. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. From the arrival of the First Fleet to the present, Irish immigrants and their descendants have been at the centre of Australian life. Sinners, Saints and Settlers takes the reader on a journey through the Irish experience in Australia, visiting locations right across the nation where the Irish story unfolds. The book concentrates on the period 1788 to 1921, when the Irish presence in Australia was proportionately at its most influential and visible. It spans the years between the Irish rebellion of 1798, which had a profound effect on the emerging colony of New South Wales, and 1921, the achievement of modern Irish independence. Card Covers. Size: 250mm - 350mm. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Sociology & Culture; Australia; ISBN: 1876944765. ISBN/EAN: 9781876944766. Inventory No: 50509. .… Leer más

National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2010. Softcover. Very Good. Size: 10"-12" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Australian History; ISBN: 1876944765. ISBN/EAN: 9781876944766. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 18730. . 9781876944766

Canberra, National Museum of Australia Press first edition - large paperback, stiff card covers This book takes the reader on a journey through the Irish experience in Australia. It seeks out places around the Nation that tell of Irish lawyers, farmers and publicans, and many others, and how central their stories are to any sense of what Australia was and is and how the echo of that Irish presence is everwhere - in a city street, a railway museum or in a stained glass window of a country church. 300 x 245mm., pp. 191, b/w & col. plates, refer., index. Large p/back (booklet), stiff card coves. FINE ISBN: 9781876944766