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The Very Rev Joseph Dalton SJ 1889

The Very Rev Joseph Dalton SJ 1889

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Australian Town and Country Journal, 12 January 1889, p28)

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Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to Federation

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St Ignatius College Riverview

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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'.

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Education

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St Ignatius College Riverview

Jesuit boys school established at Lane Cove in 1880 on the Riverview estate.

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Dalton, Joseph

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Irish Jesuit priest who established a Jesuit presence in Melbourne before moving to Sydney to found St Ignatius College.