Strange Is the Destiny of Man... single work   poetry   "Strange is the destiny of man"
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Strange Is the Destiny of Man...
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Notes

  • Editor's note: Maria Island, 23rd November 1849
  • Epigraph: An elegy addressed to Thomas Meagher while in solitary confinement on Maria Island by order of William Denison, because O'Brien refused to give his word that he would not try to escape from Van Diemen's Land.

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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Subjects:
  • Maria Island, Orford - Triabunna - Swansea area, East Coast, Tasmania,
  • Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
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