Ireland, Australia and New Zealand History, Politics and Culture

by Geary, Laurence M.; McCarthy

• ISBN13: 9780716528623
• ISBN10: 0716528622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-04
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Twenty contributors offer a fascinating range and diversity of explorations of Irish-Australian-New Zealand shared culture including material culture, folk culture, literature, music, dance, architecture, written and oral cultural transmission, cultural influences, intercommunal cultural transference, and cultural assimilation and dissemination. Often neglected political links are explored, with Carla King assessing the impact of Michael Davitt's Australian tour in 1895 on his subsequent radical politics. De Valera's only visit to Australia/New Zealand in 1948, as part of his 'anti-partition' world tour, analysed in the context of media both in Ireland. Run O'Donnell explores uncharted territory in reviewing perceptions of the IRA in mid-twentieth century Australia. Literary contributions range from Frances Devlin-Glass's reconsideration of Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles, to Brega Webb's engaging biographical study of Mary Anne Kelly, better known as 'Eva of the Nation' for h

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
Ireland and the Pacific World
Irish Immigrants in the Pacific World	p. 3
Tracking Irish Migrants in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand: Sources, Methods and Dilemmas	p. 14
Recruiting Irish Migrants for Life in New Zealand 1870-1875	p. 32
'Be you an Orangeman, you shall meet Orangemen': New Zealand's Ulster Plantation Revisited	p. 46
Cultural Transmission
William Vincent Wallace and Music in Australia 1835-38	p. 61
Eva of the Nation and the Young Ireland Press	p. 78
'We got on splendidly!' - The Irish Players in Queensland in 1922	p. 93
The Irish in Grass Castles: Re-reading Victim Tropes in an Iconic Pioneering Text	p. 104
A Sense of Place: Monastic Scenes in Irish-Australian Funerary Monuments	p. 119
Citizenship
Irish Influence on Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania from Bushrangers to the Celtic Tiger	p. 137
From Connerville, County Cork, to Connorville, Van Diemen's Land. The Irish Family Background and Colonial Career of Roderic O'Connor (1786/17877-1860)	p. 152
'The opportunity of being useful': Daniel O'Connell's Influence on John Hubert Plunkett	p. 170
Politics, War and Remembrance
'A New World full of Youthful Hopes and Promise': Michael Davitt in Australia, 1895	p. 185
The Peace Mission of Archbishop Clune	p. 199
'A roof-raising affair'? Eamon de Valera's Tour of Australia and New Zealand	p. 211
The Australian Press and the IRA Border Campaign, 1956-62	p. 224
Who Fears to Speak of '14-'18? Remembrance in Ireland and Australia	p. 240
Index	p. 257
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