Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia

361 Pages·1991·31.72 MB·English

by  Bob Reece (eds.)

EXILES FROM ERIN
Also by Bob Reece
CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRALIA (with R. Fonvard)
ABORIGINES AND COLONISTS: Aborigines and Colonial Society
in New South Wales in the 1830s and 1840s
A PLACE OF CONSEQUENCE: A Pictorial History of Fremantle
(with R. Pascoe)
THE NAME OF BROOKE: The End of White Rajah Rule in
Sarawak
IRISH CONVICTS: The Origins of Convicts Transported to
Australia
Exiles frolll Erin
Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia
Edited by
Bob Reece
Senior Lecturer in History
Murdoch University
Foreword by
Dr A.]. F. O'Reilly, AO
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For Lesley, Laura, Owen and Anna,
who went to Ireland with me
Contents
List of Plates vii
Abbreviations viii
Foreword by Dr A.]. F. O'Reilly X
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Notes on the Contributors XV
1 Introduction 1
Bob Reece
2 The Convicts of the Queen 10
Keith johnson and Michael Flynn
3 General Joseph Holt 27
Ruan O'Donnell
4 The Ballagh Barracks 'Rioters' 57
Niamh Brennan
5 'A Strange Compound of Good and Ill':
Laurence Hynes Halloran 85
Kelvin Grose
6 The Ballad of Maitland Jail 112
Bob Reece
7 The True History of Bernard Reilly 135
Bob Reece
v
vi Contents
8 Frank the Poet 151
Bob Reece
9 The Connerys 184
Bob Reece
10 Ned Kelly's Father 218
Bob Reece
11 Patrick O'Donohoe: Outcast of the Exiles 246
Richard Davis
12 The Strange Career of William de la Poer Beresford 284
Geoffrey Bolton
Appendix 1: 'Bold jack Donahoe'; 'The Exile of Erin . . .' 304
Appendix 2: Two Songs in Irish about the Connerys -
Nicholas Williams 308
Index 324
List of Plates
1a Newgate Prison, Dublin, c. 1779
1b The Tholsel, Dublin, c. 1791
2a General Joseph Holt, 1798
2b The wreck of the Isabella, Falkland Islands, 1811
3a Laurence Hynes Halloran as a Church of England chaplain or
clergyman
3b Laurence Hynes Halloran in later life
3c Judge James Dowling
3d Reverend John McGarvie
4a Title page of the chapbook published at Ballinamore, Co.
Leitrim, c. 1839
4b Illuminated copy of Robert Burns's 'Man was made to mourn',
made in Sydney in 1834
Sa Port Arthur, 1842
Sb 'Gentlemen Convicts at Work and the Convict "Centiped" [sic]
at Port Arthur, 1836'
6a 'Battle of the Factions': stick-fighting
6b Ballybricken Jail, Waterford, in the 1890s
7a Patrick O'Donohoe in the dock at Clonmel Court House, 23
October 1848
7b Sir William Denison, Governor of Van Diemen' s Land (later
Tasmania)
8a Inniscara Church of Ireland parish church, Co. Cork
8b The Hon. Charles (later Lord) Beresford with Prince Albert and
others at Government House, Perth, 1869
vii
Abbreviations
ABGR Australian Biographical and Genealogical Research
ADB Australian Dictionary of Biography
ADM Admiralty Records, Public Record Office, Kew, London
AO Audit Office Records, Public Record Office, Kew,
London
AONSW Archives Office of New South Wales, Sydney
BL British Library, London
CC&P Convict Correspondence and Petitions, Public Record
Office of Ireland, Dublin
CI Convict Indents, Archives Office of New South Wales,
Sydney
co Colonial Office Records, Public Record Office, Kew,
London
C of I Church of Ireland
CR Convict Registers, Public Record Office of Ireland,
Dublin
CSIL Colonial Secretary's In-Letters, Archives Office of New
South Wales, Sydney
DNB Dictionary of National Biography
GD Governors' Despatches (Van Diem en's Land)
GPO Post Office Archives, London
HO Home Office Records, Public Record Office, Kew,
London
HRA Historical Records of Australia, series i
]RAHS Royal Australian Historical Society Journal
ML Mitchell Library, Sydney
NLI National Library of Ireland, Dublin
NSWRG New South Wales Registrar-General's Office, Sydney
OP Outrage Papers, Public Record Office of Ireland, Dublin
PRIS King's Bench Commitment Books, Public Record Office,
Kew, London
PRO Public Record Office, Kew, London
PROI Public Record Office of Ireland, Dublin
PRONI Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast
SCR Supreme Court Records, Archives Office of New South
Wales, Sydney
viii
Abbreviations ix
SLNSW State Library of New South Wales
soc State of the Country Papers, Public Record Office of
Ireland, Dublin
TCD Trinity College Library, Dublin
TSA Con Convict Department Records, Tasmanian State
Archives, Hobart