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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 A Man of Honour
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'One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney's harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh – son of Queen Victoria – lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O'Farrell. Who was this character who began the day a complete unknown and ended it as the young colony's most hated man?' (Publication summary)

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    • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Echo Publishing , 2023 .
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      • Published February 2023
      ISBN: 9781760687854

Works about this Work

'Such Sadism, Such Pain' : Three Novels about Historical Masculinity Stephen Knight , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 452 2023; (p. 38-39)

— Review of A Man of Honour Simon Smith , 2023 single work novel ; The Death of John Lacey Ben Hobson , 2023 single work novel ; The Investigators Anthony Hill , 2023 single work novel

'In recent historical fiction, women authors have explored the Australian past from a female viewpoint, as in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves (2020), focusing on Elizabeth Macarthur, and Anita Heiss’s Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (2022), about Wagadhaany, an Indigenous woman from the Murrumbidgee River. As if in response to such potent novels, now comes a trio expressing historical masculinity.' (Introduction)

Quaint, Queer Portrait of a Butterfly Fenian Hero Peter Craven , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2023; (p. 19)

— Review of A Man of Honour Simon Smith , 2023 single work novel

'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.' 

Quaint, Queer Portrait of a Butterfly Fenian Hero Peter Craven , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2023; (p. 19)

— Review of A Man of Honour Simon Smith , 2023 single work novel

'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.' 

'Such Sadism, Such Pain' : Three Novels about Historical Masculinity Stephen Knight , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 452 2023; (p. 38-39)

— Review of A Man of Honour Simon Smith , 2023 single work novel ; The Death of John Lacey Ben Hobson , 2023 single work novel ; The Investigators Anthony Hill , 2023 single work novel

'In recent historical fiction, women authors have explored the Australian past from a female viewpoint, as in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves (2020), focusing on Elizabeth Macarthur, and Anita Heiss’s Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (2022), about Wagadhaany, an Indigenous woman from the Murrumbidgee River. As if in response to such potent novels, now comes a trio expressing historical masculinity.' (Introduction)

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  • Clontarf, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1868
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