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The hearse during the '98 Commemoration 22 May 1898

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[BN336]
(Sydney Mail, 28 May 1898 p 1135)

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1798 Memorial, Waverley Cemetery Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to Federation
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St Mary's Cathedral
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Dwyer, Mary Dwyer, Michael

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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'.

1798 Memorial, Waverley Cemetery

Erected by Sydney's Irish community at the end of the nineteenth century, the 1798 memorial honours Michael Dwyer, the Wicklow Chief, a hero of the 1798 Rising. Subsequent generations have included the names of those killed later in the struggle for Irish freedom.

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St Mary's Cathedral

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St Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the mother diocese of Australia, and remains the largest ecclesiastical building in the English Gothic style in the world.

Dwyer, Michael

Irish revolutionary and political exile who remained unsentenced until charged with sedition by Governor Bligh. Integrated into colonial society by 1810 he became a property owner and constable before bankruptcy lead to the debtors' prison and death.

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Dwyer, Mary

Irish immigrant who arrived with her husband and two oldest children when he was exiled after the Irish rebellion of 1798.

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