Botany Bay: The Story Of The Convicts Transported From Ireland To Australia, 1791-1853
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few chapters in the shared history of Ireland and Australia are as harrowing and revealing as the forced transportation of tens of thousands of Irish convicts to the penal colonies of the Southern Hemisphere. Con Costello's Botany Bay: The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791–1853 chronicles the brutal and often tragic journeys of these men and women — torn from their homeland by a colonial justice system that wielded exile as its ultimate punishment — and reconstructs their lives across six turbulent decades of empire, resistance, and survival. Costello writes with the rigour of a meticulous historian and the empathy of a storyteller deeply attuned to Irish cultural memory, drawing on archival records, ship manifests, and biographical accounts to illuminate the human cost of transportation. The work stands as a significant contribution to both Irish social history and the broader narrative of Australia's colonial origins, presenting a portrait of a people defined not by their crimes but by their endurance. Who were these forgotten thousands, and what did the new world make of them? Costello's answer is as compelling as it is sobering.
Author: Con Costello
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few chapters in the shared history of Ireland and Australia are as harrowing and revealing as the forced transportation of tens of thousands of Irish convicts to the penal colonies of the Southern Hemisphere. Con Costello's Botany Bay: The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791–1853 chronicles the brutal and often tragic journeys of these men and women — torn from their homeland by a colonial justice system that wielded exile as its ultimate punishment — and reconstructs their lives across six turbulent decades of empire, resistance, and survival. Costello writes with the rigour of a meticulous historian and the empathy of a storyteller deeply attuned to Irish cultural memory, drawing on archival records, ship manifests, and biographical accounts to illuminate the human cost of transportation. The work stands as a significant contribution to both Irish social history and the broader narrative of Australia's colonial origins, presenting a portrait of a people defined not by their crimes but by their endurance. Who were these forgotten thousands, and what did the new world make of them? Costello's answer is as compelling as it is sobering.