Oceans of Consolation : : Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia /

Oceans of Consolation : : Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia / / ed. by David Fitzpatrick.

"An ocean of consolation" was what one young Irish emigrant in rural Australia called a letter from his father in County Clare in 1855. Similar strength of feeling is often found in the intriguing letters that David Fitzpatrick has unearthed for this extraordinary collection. Oceans of Con...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Fitzpatrick, David,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (624 p.) :; 65 halftones, 12 drawings, 5 maps, 9 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Representations: Letters and Migration
  • NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA
  • 2. ‘Whistling a Jig to a Milestone’: Michael Normile, 1854-65
  • 3. ‘These Golden Shores’: Isabella Wyly, 1856-77
  • 4. ‘Queensland for Ever, augus un Ballybug go Braugh’: Biddy Burke, 1882-84
  • VICTORIAN VOICES
  • 5. ‘A Happy Home for You and Myself’: Michael Hogan, 1853-57
  • 6. ‘Jack Is as Good as His Master’: Edward O’Sullivan, 1857-72
  • 7. ‘We Are Not Living in a Wilderness’: The McCance Circle, 1856-63
  • 8. ‘An Outside Part of the World’: Patrick and Edward Comber, 1862-92
  • 9. ‘A Friendly Chat’: Philip Mahony, 1882-90
  • NEWS FROM HOME
  • 10. ‘Facing the Wild Ocean’: William and Eliza Dalton, 1851-59
  • 11. ‘Always Be Submessive to Your Superiors’: The Dunne Circle, 1864-77
  • 12. ‘It Takes Me Tow Days to Rite a Letter’: The Doorley Circle, 1877-1906
  • ULSTER ACCENTS
  • 13. ‘Comming Down the Hill of Life’: The Hammond Circle, 1843-64
  • 14. ‘We Will Meet in Ireland Yet’: The Brennan Circle, 1865-76
  • 15. ‘Farewell Farewell My Children’: William Fife, 1860-81
  • THEMES
  • 16. Correspondence: Ceremonies of Communication
  • 17. Reciprocity: The Politics of Kinship
  • 18. Negotiation: The Process of Migration
  • 19. Origins: Images of Ireland
  • 20. Outcomes: Images of Australia
  • 21. Reflections: Culture, Identity, Home
  • Sources
  • Thematic Index

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