Irish Poets in Colonial Brisbane : Mary Eva O'Doherty and Cornelius Moynihan single work   criticism  
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'This paper compares the literary careers of two Irish immigrant-poets who lived and wrote for a significant part of their lives in nineteenth-century Brisbane, using the comparison to explore some of the different ways in which Irish literary tradition could reinvent itself in a new physical and cultural environment. Early Brisbane is not an especially fertile field for the study of Irish-Australian literary writing, perhaps surprisingly, given the strong Irish presence in Brisbane society during the first half of the twentieth century. One explanation may be that whereas the Irish had a strong presence in the military and the labouring classes in the Moreton Bay Colony, the institutions of government, public education and the press - the chief nurseries of Culture in most settler societies - were dominated by the English and Scottish.' (Introduction)

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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 Queensland Review vol. 8 no. 2 November Belinda McKay (editor), 2001 Z941734 2001 periodical issue 'This issue of Queensland Review coincides with the tenth anniversary of its host institution, the Queensland Studies Centre at Griffith University. In its first decade, the Centre has mounted a large number of seminars, conferences and exhibitions on a wide range of issues related to Queensland history, art, literature, politics and society for a constituency which includes individuals from Queensland universities, the teaching profession, libraries, museums and public service departments, as well as independent researchers. The Centre acts as an umbrella organisation which facilitates research into Queensland's history, politics, society and culture by maintaining a database of Queensland researchers, and involving researchers across the state in cross-disciplinary projects and partnerships. It also acts as a public education resource through answering requests for information and through the provision of public seminars on matters of contemporary interest. In addition to Queensland Review, the Centre also produces Occasional Publications.' (Editorial)  2001 pg. 29-40
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The Harp in the South : Reading Ireland in Australia Patrick Buckridge , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V 2011; (p. 440-461)

'The Australian branch of the modern Irish diaspora has several apparently distinctive features, when compared with the British, American and Canadian branches. As explained by the historian Oliver MacDonagh, these include, firstly, its large size in relation to the total population – over 30% in the eastern mainland states, and sustained at that level down to the First World War and beyond; secondly, its unusually uniform distribution around the country, geographically, socially and even occupationally, with relatively strong Irish presences in all states, and in all classes and occupations (except the higher financial professions), but notably the law, politics, journalism and teaching; and thirdly their unique position within the diaspora,as a founding people, arriving at the beginning of European settlement (mainly as convicts and soldiers), and thereby staking a claim, and an interest, in the shape and destiny of the nation as a whole.' (Author's introduction)
The Harp in the South : Reading Ireland in Australia Patrick Buckridge , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V 2011; (p. 440-461)

'The Australian branch of the modern Irish diaspora has several apparently distinctive features, when compared with the British, American and Canadian branches. As explained by the historian Oliver MacDonagh, these include, firstly, its large size in relation to the total population – over 30% in the eastern mainland states, and sustained at that level down to the First World War and beyond; secondly, its unusually uniform distribution around the country, geographically, socially and even occupationally, with relatively strong Irish presences in all states, and in all classes and occupations (except the higher financial professions), but notably the law, politics, journalism and teaching; and thirdly their unique position within the diaspora,as a founding people, arriving at the beginning of European settlement (mainly as convicts and soldiers), and thereby staking a claim, and an interest, in the shape and destiny of the nation as a whole.' (Author's introduction)
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Subjects:
  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • 1850-1915
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