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Since the 1950s, the Aisling Society has fostered cultural relations between Australia and Ireland, and helped Sydney's Irish Australians hold onto their cultural heritage.

Commemorative plaque that was installed outside St James railway station between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Rose Bay Airport, on Sydney Harbour, was Sydney's first international airport for sea boats. Opening in 1937, Rose Bay Airport catered to the Empire Flying Boat and Air Mail Service, World War Two Catalina flying boats and Qantas and Ansett services until 1974 when services…

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry…

Bay on the Parramatta River 8 kilometres west of Sydney, surrounded by the suburbs of Abbotsford, Drummoyne, Wareemba, Five Dock, Canada Bay, Concord and Cabarita.

Aged care facility run by the Catholic religious order which was established in Sydney in 1886. The property at Randwick was acquired in 1887.

Hailed as the 'Australian Paganini', William Wallace was a musical star in Sydney on his arrival in 1836, but left only two years later, in debt, for adventures elsewhere.

English-born scene painter Alfred Clint both came from and sired an artistic family. His elaborate painted backdrops were a highlight of late nineteenth-century Sydney theatre.

While children have always comprised a substantial proportion of the overall population of Sydney, their voices are absent or muffled in many historical records. State intervention in the lives of European and Indigenous children has been constant in Sydney since the colonial…

Sculptor in wood, often in Art Nouveau style, who trained in England and became a teacher at East Sydney Technical College after a long career in industry.

Clergyman and academic who was a founding principal and professor of classics at the University of Sydney, and influential in the establishment of secular higher education.

Londoner who migrated to Sydney in the late-1850s, who purchased large parcels of land for subdivision and became known as the 'father of Rozelle.'

Artist's model, printmaker and author who modelled for many of Australia's foremost artists including Sydney Long, Harold Cazneaux, Julian Ashton and her husband Norman Lindsay.

Wife of Hannibal Macarthur who became a society figure in early Sydney before the financial collapse of her husband's businesses necessitated a move to Ipswich in Queensland.

Scottish engineer who migrated with his family to Hobart in 1832 and then to Sydney in 1838 where he established a family business with his sons.

Renowned scholar who became Professor of Classics and was to influence the role of public examinations and the growth of a free public library in Sydney.

Solicitor and politician who became an ardent supporter of a unified Greater Sydney, and Federation, whilst continuing the family tradition as benefactor of the Catholic church.

Topographical draughtsman attached to the 48th Regiment who created a series of watercolours on paper which, when joined together, formed a panorama of Sydney in 1820.

Official journal of the Australian Worker's Union. The Sydney and Brisbane papers were merged in 1974 and it is now is published in a magazine format.

Professor of drama and theatre director who greatly influenced Australian Theatre after World War II and the direction taken by subsidised theatre, especially in Sydney.