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The Sunday night céilís were well attended, and the ranks of the Irish were swelled by new immigrants arriving under the Labor government's immigration programme introduced in the late 1940s. Strangely, there was some opposition to these immigrants from those Australian Irish who believed they should have stayed at home to build up the new ...
Joe Cahill, as he was popularly known, was born on 21 January 1891 in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern, the son of Irish-born parents, Thomas Cahill, and Ellen Glynn.. Cahill's father was born in County Limerick and was a NSW railways labourer at the nearby Eveleigh Railway Workshops, and his mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants from County Cl
The Irish Echo (Australia) is a newspaper available in print and online, covering Irish news and other matters of Irish interest. [40] Tinteán is an online journal directed chiefly at Irish Australians. Its stated aim is to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.
Records include details on pub owners, such as their names, addresses, and dates of purchase. “Also, it just gives us a really interesting perspective into pub culture throughout the UK, which I ...
In “Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York,” Anbinder uses the bank records to dispel a myth that’s prevailed for generations about the 1.3 million Irish ...
By 1871, Irish immigrants accounted for one quarter of Australia's overseas-born population. [102] Irish Catholic immigrants – who made up about 75% of the total Irish population [98] – were largely responsible for the establishment of a separate Catholic school system. [103] [104] About 20% of Australian children attend Catholic schools as ...
Pages in category "Australian people of Irish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 834 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first known Irish to arrive to Australia came with the First Fleet in 1791 when Britain shipped 155 Irish convicts to Australia after the British government created a penal colony in New South Wales. A further 7000 Irish convicts would be shipped to Australia. [1] Between 1840 and 1914, over 300,000 Irish migrated to Australia. [1]