A New History of the Irish in Australia by Dianne Hall (English) Paperback Book

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In 1986, Patrick O'Farrell published a landmark book, The Irish in Australia. This was an important volume given that after the English, the Irish were the largest population in Australia between 1788 and 1945. Drawing on source materials unused until now, this edition focuses on key areas previously ignored, including race.

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Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2019: HistoryIrish 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 central to the evolution of Australia's national character through their refusal to accept a British identity.A New History of the Irish in Australia takes a fresh approach. It draws on source materials not used until now and focuses on topics previously neglected, such as race, stereotypes, gender, popular culture, employment discrimination, immigration restriction, eugenics, crime and mental health.  This important book also considers the Irish in Australia within the worldwide Irish diaspora. Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall reveal what Irish Australians shared with Irish communities elsewhere, while reminding us that the Irish–Australian experience was – and is – unique.   'A necessary corrective to the false unity of the term "Anglo-Celtic", this beautifully controlled and clear-sighted intervention is timely and welcome. It gives us not just a history of the Irish in Australia, but a skilful account of how identity is formed relationally, often through sectarian, class, ethnic and racial divisions. A masterful book.'  — Professor Rónán McDonald, University of Melbourne

Author Biography

Elizabeth Malcolm is an honorary professorial fellow and formerly Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne, has published on policing, mental health, gender and popular culture in Ireland, as well as on the Irish diaspora in both Britain and Australia. Dianne Hall is a senior lecturer in History at Victoria University, Melbourne, has published widely on the Irish in nineteenth-century Australia, as well as on gender, religion and violence in Ireland.

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Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2019: History 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 central to the evolution of Australia's national character through their refusal to accept a British identity. A New History of the Irish in Australia takes a fresh approach. It draws on source materials not used until now and focuses on topics previously neglected, such as race, stereotypes, gender, popular culture, employment discrimination, immigration restriction, eugenics, crime and mental health. This important book also considers the Irish in Australia within the worldwide Irish diaspora. Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall reveal what Irish Australians shared with Irish communities elsewhere, while reminding us that the Irish-Australian experience was - and is - unique. 'A necessary corrective to the false unity of the term "Anglo-Celtic", this beautifully controlled and clear-sighted intervention is timely and welcome. It gives us not just a history of the Irish in Australia, but a skilful account of how identity is formed relationally, often through sectarian, class, ethnic and racial divisions. A masterful book.' -- Professor R

Details ISBN1742235530 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1742235530 ISBN-13 9781742235530 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-11-01 Country of Publication Australia Publisher UNSW Press Imprint UNSW Press Place of Publication Sydney Pages 448 Author Elizabeth Malcolm DEWEY 305.89162094 Language English NZ Release Date 2018-11-01 Audience General AU Release Date 2018-10-31 We've got this

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