Table of Contents

1.Data: What is Known About the Irish in North America Donald H. Akenson 2. The Irish and Law in Australia Gerard Brennan 3. W.B. Yeats: Political Poetry or Poems to the Editor Vincent Buckley 4. William O’Brien: Problems Reappraising his Political Career Philip Bull 5. Murder as Metaphor: Griffin’s Portrayal of Ireland in the Year of Catholic Emancipation Tom Dunne 6. The Overflow of the Deluge: Anglo-Irish Relationships, 1914-1922 David Fitzpatrick 7. Daniel Mannix and the Cult of Personality James Griffin 8. Father Mathew’s Statue: The Making of a Monument in Cork Ken Inglis 9. Violence Transported: Aspects of Irish Peasant Society Edith Mary Johnston 10. The Irish in Australia: A General View Oliver MacDonagh 11. Sir Antony MacDonnell and Crime Branch Special W. F. Mandle 12. ‘A Great Battle’ – Bishop James A. Goold of Melbourne (1848-1864) and the State Aid for Religion Controversy F.X. Martin 13. Writing the History of Irish-Australia Patrick O’Farrell 14. The Desolate Boys: Juvenile Crime and Punishment, Ireland and New South Wales Portia Robinson 15. Telling it Slant: Swift and the Journal to Stella Peter Steele 16. ‘The Harp New-Strung’: Nationalism, Culture and the United Irishmen A.T.Q. Stewart 17. Maria Edgeworth: The Novelist and the Union Iain Topliss.