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Trim, the Cartographer’s Cat: The Ship’s Cat Who Helped Matthew Flinders Map Australia

Trim, the Cartographer’s Cat: The Ship’s Cat Who Helped Matthew Flinders Map Australia by Matthew Flinders, Philippa Sandall and Gillian Dooley, with illustrations by Ad Long and a foreword by Julian Stockwin Adlard Coles (Bloomsbury), 2019, 128 pp., ISBN: 9781472967206, h/bk, AUS$22.49 Trim,…

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Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall, A New History of the Irish in Australia

Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall, A New History of the Irish in Australia New South Books, 2018, 448pp, ISBN: 9781742235530 (p/b), RRP: $34.99 In 1986 Patrick O’Farrell published The Irish in Australia. At the time, the book was both feted and criticised…