Title: Oceans of consolation : personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia /
Authors: Fitzpatrick, David
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Irish Australia Biography.; Immigrants Australia Biography; Irish Australia Correspondence.; Immigrants Australia Correspondence.; Australia Emigration and immigration History.; Ireland Emigration and immigration History.; Australia Emigration and immigration History Sources.; Ireland Emigration and immigration History Sources.
Abstract: Includes personal correspondence of fourteen families of Irish emigrants in the Australian colonies, giving equal attention to letters to and from Australia. The book reproduces in full more than one hundred letters dating from 1843 to 1906 and includes a selection of contemporary engravings and photographs. Fitzpatrick's commentaries offer biographical narratives for all of the emigrant correspondents, tracing their Irish backgrounds and Australian careers.--
Contents: Facing the wild ocean, 1851-59 /