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Dedication: For Michael McKernan and all at Watsonia
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Book Two of the Autobiographical Memoirs Series.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Life-Writing and Diaspora II : The Autobiographical Writings of the Irish in Britain and Australia
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A History of Irish Autobiography 2018; (p. 331-347)'There is no more common Irish journey than that made by generations of people ‘across the water’ to Great Britain. A complex set of factors, from the countries’ geographical proximity to the colonial nature of their historical relationship, combine to ensure that Irish migration to Britain ‘comprises a very large, very special case’. Australia, too, has claims to exceptionalism as a receptor of Irish migrants. Oliver MacDonagh proposes three respects in which the Irish-Australian diaspora differs from its counterparts in Britain and North America: its historically high percentage of the total population of the new country, its very even demographic distribution and the somewhat special status of the Irish as a ‘founding people’, arriving in Australia – mainly as convicts and soldiers – at the beginning of its European colonization, thereby exercising a potentially stronger influence over the shape and destiny of the new nation than the other Irish emigrations could hope to achieve. Although points of commonality co-exist with these markers of difference – particularly for Catholic Irish migrants, who have a shared historical experience of being a denigrated out-group in both countries – any joint examination of the autobiographical writings of the Irish in Britain and Australia must expect the contrasts to eclipse the correspondences. Yet, as this chapter will show, despite being shaped by highly distinctive diasporic histories and sociocultural conditions, these respective literary corpuses reveal certain narrative preoccupations that illuminate the shifting meanings of home and belonging for those whose identities are forged across boundaries and heritages.' (Introduction)
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Distant Lives
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , February vol. 2 no. 1 1997; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
Returning to the Seminary
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 December 1996; (p. 9)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
The Story of an Absolute Novice
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 September 1996; (p. rev 8)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
How to Survive an Early Brush with the Mystery of Faith
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 September 1996; (p. 8)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography
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Mystery of Life in the Jesuits
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 October 1996; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
Inside Outside
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , October vol. 6 no. 8 1996; (p. 49-50)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
Tribal World of the Jesuits
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 185 1996; (p. 30-31)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
Angels Lose Their Way
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 November 1996; (p. 15)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
The Curious Denial of the Jesuit
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 November vol. 116 no. 6047 1996; (p. 75)
— Review of Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit 1996 single work autobiography -
Making It
1996
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , November no. 158 1996; (p. 22-23) -
Life-Writing and Diaspora II : The Autobiographical Writings of the Irish in Britain and Australia
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A History of Irish Autobiography 2018; (p. 331-347)'There is no more common Irish journey than that made by generations of people ‘across the water’ to Great Britain. A complex set of factors, from the countries’ geographical proximity to the colonial nature of their historical relationship, combine to ensure that Irish migration to Britain ‘comprises a very large, very special case’. Australia, too, has claims to exceptionalism as a receptor of Irish migrants. Oliver MacDonagh proposes three respects in which the Irish-Australian diaspora differs from its counterparts in Britain and North America: its historically high percentage of the total population of the new country, its very even demographic distribution and the somewhat special status of the Irish as a ‘founding people’, arriving in Australia – mainly as convicts and soldiers – at the beginning of its European colonization, thereby exercising a potentially stronger influence over the shape and destiny of the new nation than the other Irish emigrations could hope to achieve. Although points of commonality co-exist with these markers of difference – particularly for Catholic Irish migrants, who have a shared historical experience of being a denigrated out-group in both countries – any joint examination of the autobiographical writings of the Irish in Britain and Australia must expect the contrasts to eclipse the correspondences. Yet, as this chapter will show, despite being shaped by highly distinctive diasporic histories and sociocultural conditions, these respective literary corpuses reveal certain narrative preoccupations that illuminate the shifting meanings of home and belonging for those whose identities are forged across boundaries and heritages.' (Introduction)
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
- 1960s