Clare and the Great War
Clare and the Great War

Author: Joe Power

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0750965568

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Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants – the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause for which many of them would go out to fight and die. Their motives varied from a sense of duty to 'king and country' to concern about the fate of 'poor Catholic Belgium'; from mercenary motives, fuelled by poverty, to the moral duty to fight for civilization against the 'savage Huns'. Some followed 'Redmond's call' to secure Home Rule, while others enlisted for sheer adventure. The work attempts, for the first time, to understand what really happened in County Clare during the Great War, how its economic and political life was radically transformed during this terrible conflict, and how the contribution of those who gave their lives was largely written out of history.'

Kilkenny Families in the Great War
Kilkenny Families in the Great War

Author: Niall Brannigan

Publisher: Anchor Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 9780956082626

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Includes appendices of Auxiliaries (non-combatant service volunteers) and Transients (non-natives who were stationed or hospitalized in Kilkenny).

Fighting Words
Fighting Words

Author: Raymond Evans

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780702231094

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With an open heart and inquiring intellect, Raymond Evans sets out to uncover a past not studied in the school books of his youth. Growing up in the 1950s, he lived in a community devoid of Aboriginal presence. It was an enclave of Welsh migrant families, with all the rituals and traditions of a faraway "Home". His evolving historical consciousness was fired by the need to connect with these shadowy absences and to engage with his adopted homeland. Interwoven with his personal journey is a revealing selection of race relations histories, which cover a wide arena from the Aboriginal/European conflicts of colonial Queensland to the anti-Chinese riots of 1888 and civilian internment during World War I. Evans also moves beyond frontier conflict into the long period of repressive government control of Aboriginal lives. In writing on race, gender and labour relations he illustrates how selective history can be by omitting the contribution of Aboriginal labourers, men and women. These form a critical bridge to understanding the complexities of race relations today.

Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland
Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland

Author: Constance Campbell Petrie

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2014-03-07

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1922109975

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Queensland classic edition, originally published by Watson Ferguson & Company in 1904. These stories, first appeared in the “Queeslander” in the form of articles, many of which referred to the Aboriginal People. These articles were then recorded and published by his daughter, Constance Campbell Petrie, in 1904. This book also provides a brief sketch of the early days of the colony of Queensland from 1837, through the eyes of Tom Petrie. He was considered an authority on the Aboriginal people and in this book there is a wide range of interesting and important information about them, including some vocabulary words.

Australian Politics in a Digital Age
Australian Politics in a Digital Age

Author: Peter John Chen

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1922144401

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The first comprehensive volume on the impact of digital media on Australian politics, this book examines the way these technologies shape political communication, alter key public and private institutions, and serve as the new arena in which discursive and expressive political life is performed. -- Publisher's description.