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Floating prisons, Irish convict hulks and voyages to New South Wales 1823 - 1837, Anne McMahon ; introduction by Matthew Richardson

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Floating prisons, Irish convict hulks and voyages to New South Wales 1823 - 1837, Anne McMahon ; introduction by Matthew Richardson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-252) and index

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Floating prisons

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Anne McMahon ; introduction by Matthew Richardson

Sub title

Irish convict hulks and voyages to New South Wales 1823 - 1837

Summary

Most people think of Australia's convict past as decidedly English. Anne McMahon tells the story of the Irish prisoners roped into the British transportation scheme. Poverty, civil unrest and overcrowded prisons in Ireland from 1823 to 1837 led to thousands of men being sentenced to transportation to Australia. They were confined mainly to hulks moored in Cork Harbour and near Dublin. Violence, illness and meagre rations were the norm. Anne McMahon's vivid descriptions of what it was really like to endure transportation -- squalid living conditions and long sea voyages -- reveals the Irish convict experience

Table Of Contents

Introduction: A nation, an empire, a colony -- Chapter 1: Nineteeth century Irish penal administration -- Chapter 2: Social conditions in Ireland, 1801-1837 -- Chapter 3: Early transportation under the union -- Chapter 4: The Surprize prison hulk at Cove -- Chapter 5: The Essex prison hulk at Kingstown -- Chapter 6: Ships, routes and shipwrecks -- Chapter 7: Roles and relationships during the voyages -- Chapter 8: The surgeon superintendents

Target audience

adult

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