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St Patrick's church, Sydney c1910

By
John Henry Harvey
Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[H2009.100/255]
(J. H. Harvey collection of lantern slides)

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Harvey, John Henry

State Library of Victoria

The State Library of Victoria is contributing items from its multimedia collection

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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St Patrick's Catholic church Church Hill

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One of Sydney's earliest Catholic churches, opened in 1844.

Church Hill

Hill above the western side of Sydney Cove where St Patrick's Catholic Church, the Scots Kirk and St Philip's Anglican Church are located.

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