Surgeons on board famine and convict ships exhibited strong anti-Irish sentiment in their reports it has been revealed. Medical records from 1,200 ship surgeons from the period 1793 to 1880 have ...

Analysis: thousands of Irish convicts awaiting transportation to Australia two centuries ago were housed on ships moored at Cork and Dublin harbours Carrying a cargo of men, women, and children ...

On December 10, 1791, the Hive, a ship carrying Irish convicts, ran aground just outside of Sydney, Australia. The wreck of the convict transport Hive was found on the south coast of New South ...

For more serious offences, such as attempting escape by stealing small boats or attempting to bribe their passage on a passing ship, men could be flogged. Authorities felt that Irish convicts were ...

A new book on survivors of a ship which sank off the coast of Australia The Hive: Was used to transport convicts Shortly after dawn on a December morning in 1835, the Aboriginal people living ...

They arrived aboard the Hougoumont, Australia's last convict ship. Descendants and relatives of the Irish passengers, who were sent to Fremantle prison once the ship docked after its voyage from ...

But the ship’s surgeon ... mostly chose to stay there and the area became a stronghold of Irish Catholicism. Many of the convicts and their descendants travelled far beyond potato farming.

By the time the ship docked in Sydney Harbour on 26 ... to Botany Bay. The Irish Vanguard: The Convicts of the Queen, Ireland to Botany Bay, 1791 by Barbara Hall, (Irish Wattle, 2009) This week ...

The Luck of the Irish is constructed around a single event: the wreck of the convict ship Hive, which ran aground just south of Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast in late 1835, on its way from Cork ...

renowned Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie had no idea more than 15,000 terrified women and children were herded on to convict ships bound for Australia from the stone promenade in the 19th century.