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Hiring Immigrants at the Depot, Hyde Park July 1879

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[TN83]
(Australian Town and Country Journal, 19 July 1879, p 120)

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State Library of New South Wales

Immigration

From its foundation by the First Fleet, Sydney has been populated by immigrants from cultures across the world and remains Australia's most multicultural city.

Hyde Park Barracks archaeology

Sydney's first 'big dig' at Hyde Park Barracks, and subsequent archaeological work, produced one of the best collections of nineteenth-century institutional material in the world. These items illuminate the lives and interests of the thousands of women who passed through this building during its history as an immigration depot and destitute asylum.

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'.

Irish Famine Memorial, Hyde Park Barracks

Eleven shiploads of Irish girls, orphaned by the Great Famine of the 1840s, arrived in Sydney between 1848 and 1850. They were housed in the Hyde Park Barracks before going out to work and marry in Sydney and beyond. In the 1990s, a worldwide movement among the Irish diaspora to commemorate the Famine, led to the construction of Sydney's Famine memorial, set into the Hyde Park Barracks perimeter wall.

Employment services

Immigration

Women

Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.