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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 'A Miserably Constructed Shelter' : Daughters of the Great Irish Famine in Australia
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'In September 1868, 12-year-old Catherine Rudd was arrested for living in a "miserably constructed shelter composed of rags and boughs" with a reputed sex worker, her widowed mother. Catherine and her siblings were sent to industrial schools, their mother to gaol. She herself had arrived in Australia alone in 1849, aged 15, an Irish Famine orphan. This new study centred on Newcastle Industrial School for Girls (New South Wales) from 1867 to 1871, reveals that close to one third of the inmates were girls born of Irish Famine refugees. This paper examines their story of destitution, discrimination and intergenerational incarceration driven by colonial policies and their Irish Famine origins.' 

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  • This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.

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    y separately published work icon Hecate vol. 47 no. 1/2 2021 26445618 2021 periodical issue 'Rage, outrage and anger were a driving force in the formation of myself and many of my contemporaries in the women’s liberation movement from the 1960s on—and as still something like that in the 2020s—for many of those that are still here.' (Editorial introduction) 2021 pg. 85-110
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