Oceans of consolation
Subtitle: personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia
By: [edited by] David Fitzpatrick.
Contributors: Fitzpatrick, David.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 649
Subjects: Irish -- Australia -- Biography; Immigrants -- Australia -- Biography; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.