y separately published work icon Thomas Kennedy's March from Creswick's Creek single work   poetry   "Like wildfire went the word around,"
Alternative title: Eureka Stockade Centenary : December 3 : 1854-1954
Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 Thomas Kennedy's March from Creswick's Creek
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The ballad recounts the events of 30 November 1854 when Thomas Kennedy and George Black, delegates from the Ballarat Reform League, left Creswick's Creek and marched to Ballarat, in support of the diggers' rebellion. Kennedy was regarded by Pearce as 'the only true radical among the Eureka leaders' (Preface).

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    • Ferntree Gully, Ferntree Gully area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Rams Skull Press , 1954 .
      Extent: [13] p.p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Historical preface by Harry Pearce.
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