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Sir James Martin, Chief Justice c1870

By
John Roarty
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1321059 / PXA 549/23a]
(Mitchell Library)

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Martin, James 1820-1886

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Roarty, John

State Library of New South Wales

Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to Federation

A large part of Sydney's European community from its earliest days, the Irish helped shape the colony and its cultural and religious institutions. While many Irish immigrants, both convict and free, prospered and flourished in Sydney throughout the nineteenth century, they rarely forgot their homeland and its struggles, and remained a community which never thought of England as 'home'.

Courts and judicial system

Irish

Legal profession

State government

Martin, James 1820-1886

Politician and lawyer who rose from a humble background to be a member of parliament, Chief Justice of the colony and Premier three times between 1863 and 1872.

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