The Great Shame - A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New

Random House Australia, 1999. Foxing at page edges, creased spine, otherwise good secondhand copy.

In the 19th century, the Irish population was halved. The Great Shame traces the three causes of this depletion: the famine, the emigrations, and the transportations to Australia. Based on unique research among little-used sources, this masterly book covers eighty years of Irish history, told through the intimate lens of political prisoners - some of them ancestors of the Keneally family - who served time as convicts in Australia...