Title: Irish South Australia : new histories and insights /
Authors: Arthure, Susan; Breen, Fidelma; James, Stephanie, 1949-; Lonergan, Dymphna,; O´ Caollai´, Breanda´n,
Year: 2019
Subjects: History.; Irish South Australia History.; Irish Migrations.; Immigrants South Australia.; South Australia Emigration and immigration History.; South Australia History.
Abstract: Its capital is named after German-born Queen Adelaide, its main street after her English husband, King William IV, so it is not surprising that little is known about South Australia's Irish background. However, the first European to discover Adelaide's River Torrens in 1836 was Cork-born and educated George Kingston, who was deputy surveyor to Colonel Light; the river was named in turn for Derryman Colonel Torrens, Chairman of the South Australian Colonisation Commission. Adelaide's first judge and first police commissioner were immigrants from Kerry and Limerick. "Irish South Australia" charts Irish settlement from as far north as Pekina, to the state's south-east and Mount Gambier. It follows the diverse fortunes of the Irish-born elite such as George Kingston and Charles Harvey Bagot, as well as doctors, farmers, lawyers, orphans, parliamentarians, pastoralists and publicans who made South Australia their home, with various shades of political and religious beliefs: Anglicans, Catholics, Dissenters, Federationalists, Freemasons, Home Rulers, nationalists, and Orangemen. Irish markers can be found in South Australian archaeology, architecture, geography and history. Some of these are visible in the hundreds of Irish place names that dot the South Australian landscape, such as Clare, Donnybrook, Dublin, Kilkenny, Navan, Rostrevor, Tipperary, and Tralee (as Tarlee).
Contents: Foreword by His Excellency Breanda´n O´ Caollai´ -- Preface -- Timeline of the Irish in South Australia before Federation -- G.S. Kingston and other pioneer Irish in South Australia / Dymphna Lonergan -- Irish settlement in the Mount Barker region, 1836-1891 / Ann Herraman -- Fortune and misfortune : early Irish colonists in the Clare Valley / Rory Hope and Stephanie James -- The unexpected Irishmen : how David Power and Anthony Sutton established an Irish colonial presence in the south east of South Austraila / Neisha Wratten -- Kapunda's Irish connections / Susan Arthure -- Irish graves in mid north South Australia, 1850-1899 : an examination of cultural significance / Janine McEgan -- "The most thoroughly Irish centre in South Australia" : Pekina from the 1870s to the 1940s / John Mannion and Stephanie James -- Irish women in early South Australia / Cherrie De Leiuen -- The "wrong kind of immigrant" : how existing prejudice on class, gender and ethnicity affected the reception of female Irish famine orphans in South Australia under the Earl Grey Scheme / Jade Hastings -- Irish lawyers and judges in South Australia, 1836-1914 / Peter Moore -- South Australia's Irish colonial surgeons : the first 30 years, 1836-1866 / Bronte Gould -- St Patrick's Day in South Australia, 1836-1945 / Simon O'Reilley -- Varieties of Irish nationalism in South Australia, 1839-1950 : changing terms of engagement / Stephanie James -- Ireland, home rule and the Orange Order in South Australia / Fidelma Breen -- Cultural capital and Irish place names / Dymphna Lonergan.