Vagaries of Memory single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 Vagaries of Memory
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The narrator recalls two scenes associated with Thurles, Ireland, brought to mind by a wind-bourne map. The first memory was of a mother madly carrying her dead child as if still alive during the famine of 1842-3; and then at the St Kilda railway station where a fellow passenger drunkenly declares herself the 'Lady of Thurles'. (PB)

Affiliation Notes

  • 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 The Australian Journal vol. 15 no. 172 September 1879 Z1012206 1879 periodical issue 1879 pg. 38-39
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    Ireland,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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