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Portrait of Sisters of Mercy nun, Sydney c1890

Portrait of Sisters of Mercy nun, Sydney c1890

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John Hubert Newman

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State Library of Victoria

[H2005.34/2014]

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Newman, John Hubert

State Library of Victoria

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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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