The Nun of Killeen single work   short story   mystery  
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 The Nun of Killeen
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A stranger's death on the goldfields in 1854. The fate of his bones and his life as a wanderer are revealed in the diary he left, recounted by the narrator. As a youth he journeyed from England to Ireland in 1815 to gather relics from the evacuation of some ancient Christian graveyard for his antiquarian father. He disturbs a nun's bones and relics, and true to an old Irishman's curse, is haunted by her ghost till the day of his death. Capable. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 26 no. 315 August 1891 Z1037014 1891 periodical issue 1891 pg. 649-652
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