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The Riddle of Father Hackett
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

The Riddle of Father Hackett

In 1922, at the height of Ireland's tragic civil war, Irish Jesuit William Hackett was transferred to Australia by his order Assigned to a minor teaching post, this seemingly unremarkable newcomer caused no stir. Yet Father Hackett had been close to the centre of the provisional Irish Republic's struggle for independence from Britain; part of the network of Irish nationalists who carried intelligence, ministered to republican troops, spoke on republican platforms, and helped to publicise British injustices and atrocities in Ireland. Now, he was effectively an exile. A major figure in the biography, Archbishop Daniel Mannix is seen for the first time in close-up, through Hackett's privileged insight into the private self of the famously aloof and powerful prelate.

Crusade Or Conspiracy? Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Crusade Or Conspiracy? Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: UNSW Press

Bitterness over the 1950s split between Catholics and anti-Communists has never gone away. The importance of this book in defining Labor politics for the last 50 years is crucial, and all those interested in either Labor history or history of organised religion in Australia will find it useful.

The Belligerent Prelate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

The Belligerent Prelate

This book is an examination and evaluation from a historical perspective of the alliance that was established and forged between the former Taoiseach and President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, and the former President of Maynooth and Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, Dr Daniel Mannix. The book will examine how the alliance between the two men played a pivotal role in Ireland’s push for independence. The Archbishop’s role is used as a symbol of the vast Irish diaspora worldwide and how their support, both financially and physically through demonstrations for Ireland, helped keep the push for autonomy alive. Having examined the role the Archbishop played in his alliance with de Valera and the clergy, the book appraises how Dr Mannix, so revered at one stage in Irish society, became such an isolated figure after 1925. Irish history has largely neglected the role of the Archbishop. This historical analysis, grounded in research of both primary and secondary sources including previously undocumented oral evidence, archival papers, written public and private correspondence between the two characters and visual sources, will help to replenish his role.

Ireland's Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 583

Ireland's Empire

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

Business & Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Business & Finance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Macnamara's Irish Colony and the United States Taking of California in 1846
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Macnamara's Irish Colony and the United States Taking of California in 1846

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Images of Irish immigration often bring to mind Ellis Island and crowded Eastern ports. If Eugene Macnamara's planned Irish Colony in California had succeeded, however, we might have a very different view of the Irish in America. In 1844, Eugene Macnamara, an Irish priest with a shadowy history, began promoting his plan to create an Irish colony in California. With the first of the Potato Famines a year later, many Irish farmers had to seek a new life, and California seemed to be the answer. In both Washington and Mexico, Macnamara and his plan were viewed as suspicious, even dangerous, yet once the U.S. war with Mexico gained California for the United States, the priest and his plan were largely forgotten. Both period documents and new discoveries are used to flesh out the story of the California colonization project and the mysterious figure behind it. With illustrations, maps, and index, this book is a valuable resource for understanding American, Mexican, and Irish history--and a fascinating glimpse of the ways in which the past might have been different.

Loreto in Australia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Loreto in Australia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: UNSW Press

Loreto founder Mary Ward's life and work will be celebrated around the world for three full years (2009-2012) in honour of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of her first religious community. This book will be a major contribution to this anniversary. Australian author. Loreto nuns have also worked in indigenous communities.

The Enterprising Life of Dr Henry Backhaus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

The Enterprising Life of Dr Henry Backhaus

"The life of Rev Dr Henry Backhaus (1812-1882) Pioneer Priest in Bendigo"--Provided by publisher.

Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vol. for 1900 consists of Report of the Corporation Counsel (John Whalen) and reports of Bureau of Street Openings, Bureau for the Recovery of Penalties, assistant assigned to Department of Buildings, assistant detailed to Department of Health, bureau for collections of Arrears of Personal Taxes, and Report of proceedings against delinquent jurors for quarter ending Dec. 31, 1900.

El Proyecto Macnamara
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

El Proyecto Macnamara

This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico s far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually arrived, a New Ennis , New Clare or New Ireland could have been born. His scheme failed when the US seized California in 1846. Macnamara life spanned half the globe and was dramatic: expulsion from a Paris seminary, a dash to Rome from Guiana to expose a convulsing mission, a year in revolutionary Mexico, two months in threatened California (backed by the Royal Navy) and asylum in Mexico City du...