The luck of the Irish : how a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
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The luck of the Irish : how a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
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- The luck of the Irish : how a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
- Title remainder
- how a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
- Statement of responsibility
- Babette Smith
- Subject
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- Penal transportation -- New South Wales -- History
- Hive (Ship)
- trueNew South Wales -- Emigration and immigration | History
- trueAustralia -- History -- 19th century
- Shipwreck victims -- New South Wales -- History
- trueHistory writing -- Australia -- Early Australia
- trueShipwreck survivors
- trueShipwrecks -- Australia -- History
- trueNew South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851
- trueColonial Australia (1788-1901) -- 1788 -- 1901
- trueConvict ships -- Australia
- truePenal colonies -- New South Wales -- History
- Irish -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- trueAustralian literature
- trueConvicts -- New South Wales -- History
- trueTransportation of prisoners -- New South Wales -- History
- trueIrish -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- trueNew South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author of the bestselling Cargo of Women and Australia's Birthstain tracks the lives of Irish convicts. The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the NSW coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived
- Award
- NSW Premier's History Awards, Community and Regional History Prize, 2015.
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- Dewey number
- 994.02
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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