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Article: The Irish in Australia. (JAS Review of Books). (book review)
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- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Patrick O'Farrell, The Irish in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, 2000, pp 384, pb $35.00.
The Irish in Australia is the third edition of Patrick O'Farrell's comprehensive study of the history of Irish settlement in Australia. Apart from being an accessible, well researched and popular study of the Irish diaspora, O'Farrell's work has been the springboard for subsequent studies of Irish Australia since it was first published in 1986. Many researchers have taken up O'Farrell's initial challenge of doing something to remedy `the gaps and deficiencies' in Irish Australian studies. Significantly he has included some of these new studies in his `selected ...