Oceans of consolation

About this book

Includes personal correspondence of fourteen families of Irish emigrants in the Australian colonies, giving equal attention to letters to and from Australia. The book reproduces in full more than one hundred letters dating from 1843 to 1906 and includes a selection of contemporary engravings and photographs. Fitzpatrick's commentaries offer biographical narratives for all of the emigrant correspondents, tracing their Irish backgrounds and Australian careers.--