'A miserably constructed shelter': Daughters of the great Irish famine in Australia

Casey, A

'A miserably constructed shelter': Daughters of the great Irish famine in Australia

Casey, A

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Publisher:: Hecate Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 2023, 47, (1/2 2021), pp. 85-110
Issue Date:: 2023-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Casey, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6146-2722
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dc.identifier.citation	Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 2023, 47, (1/2 2021), pp. 85-110
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dc.description.abstract	In September 1868, 12-year-old Catherine Rudd was arrested for living in a "miserably constructed shelter composed of rags and boughs" with a reputed sex worker, her widowed mother. Catherine and her siblings were sent to industrial schools, their mother to gaol. She herself had arrived in Australia alone in 1849, aged 15, an Irish Famine orphan. This new study centred on Newcastle Industrial School for Girls (New South Wales) from 1867 to 1871, reveals that close to one third of the inmates were girls born of Irish Famine refugees. This paper examines their story of destitution, discrimination and intergenerational incarceration driven by colonial policies and their Irish Famine origins.
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dc.subject	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing, 2005 Literary Studies, 2103 Historical Studies
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dc.title	'A miserably constructed shelter': Daughters of the great Irish famine in Australia
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Abstract:

In September 1868, 12-year-old Catherine Rudd was arrested for living in a "miserably constructed shelter composed of rags and boughs" with a reputed sex worker, her widowed mother. Catherine and her siblings were sent to industrial schools, their mother to gaol. She herself had arrived in Australia alone in 1849, aged 15, an Irish Famine orphan. This new study centred on Newcastle Industrial School for Girls (New South Wales) from 1867 to 1871, reveals that close to one third of the inmates were girls born of Irish Famine refugees. This paper examines their story of destitution, discrimination and intergenerational incarceration driven by colonial policies and their Irish Famine origins.

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