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Article: Irish Women in Colonial Australia.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Trevor McClaughlin (ed.), Irish Women in Colonial Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1998, ISBN 1 86448 715 1; xvii + 229 pages, RRP $24.95.
Almost one-eighth of the immigrants into Australia between 1788 and 1900 were Irish females. On one reading this makes them a most important constituent of the intake. But of course they can also be aggregated in the Irish total, or in the female total, or (so far as appropriate) the unmarried total, or in the `family' total, either in the nuclear or close kinship sense. Moreover, as David Fitzpatrick concludes in his acute essay on letters of Irish female emigrants, much in emigration was a common experience, `In the course ...