The Management of Irish Convicts Judged by the Opinion of the Public Press and by the Testimony of Home and Foreign Authorities. Reprinted from the Irish Quarterly Review
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 146
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Van Diemen's Women
Author: Joan Kavanagh
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0750966661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. Using original records, this study reveals the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania and beyond, and shows that perhaps, for some, this Draconian punishment was, in fact, a life-saving measure.
Free Passage
Author: Perry McIntyre
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780716531005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn invaluable book for historians and general readers alike, and all those interested in genealogy and Australian connections. --Book Jacket.
Observations on the Treatment of Convicts in Ireland
Author: Edward Balme Wheatley Balme
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformative account of Irish and English systems set up to deal with convicts formerly sentenced to transportation to Australia. The English justices recommend certain Irish practices to combat recidivism in the enlightened but not entirely effectual system in operation at the prison at Wakefield, which was modelled on Pentonville and its system of separate confinement.
Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922
Author: Professor Sean Mcconville
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-19
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 1134600984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged from gentlemen revolutionaries to those who openly embraced terrorism or even full-scale guerilla war. Seán McConville provides a comprehensive survey of Irish revolutionary struggle, matching chapters on punishment of offenders with descriptions and analysis of their campaigns. Government's response to political violence was determined by a number of factors, including not only the nature of the offences but also interest and support from the United States and Australia, as well as current objectives of Irish policy.
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland
Author: Elaine Farrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108839509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on women's relationships, life-circumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.
Empire of Hell
Author: Hilary M. Carey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1107043085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.
Convicts
Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1108888569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections across the world. Exploring punitive mobility to islands, colonies, and remote inland and border regions over a period of five centuries, she proposes a close and enduring connection between punishment, governance, repression, and nation and empire building, and reveals how states, imperial powers, and trading companies used convicts to satisfy various geo-political and social ambitions. Punitive mobility became intertwined with other forms of labour bondage, including enslavement, with convicts a key source of unfree labour that could be used to occupy territories. Far from passive subjects, however, convicts manifested their agency in various forms, including the extension of political ideology and cultural transfer, and vital contributions to contemporary knowledge production.
The Catalpa Rescue
Author: Peter FitzSimons
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0733641253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known to the inmates as a 'living tomb'. What follows is one of history's most stirring sagas that splices Irish, American, British and Australian history together in its climactic moment. For Ireland, who had suffered English occupation for 700 years, a successful escape was an inspirational call to arms. For America, it was a chance to slap back at Britain for their support of the South in the Civil War; for England, a humiliation. And for a young Australia, still not sure if it was Great Britain in the South Seas or worthy of being an independent country in its own right, it was proof that Great Britain was not unbeatable. Told with FitzSimons' trademark combination of arresting history and storytelling verve, The Catalpa Rescue is a tale of courage and cunning, the fight for independence and the triumph of good men, against all odds.
