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The Very Rev Dean Sheridan, VG 1877

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[TN83]
(Australian Town and Country Journal, 26 May 1877, p13)

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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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Sheridan, John Felix

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Catholic priest who devoted himself to youth welfare and was fondly remembered for his skill as a fiddler.