Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales

BOB REECE is Associate Professor in History at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is the author of Aborigines and Colonists: Aboriginal-European Relations in New South Wales in the 1820s and 1830s, and editor of Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia.

'...this is a most valuable and welcome addition to published information on the background to colonial Australia, on the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and on the introduction of Irish immigrants in 1791. It deserves a place in the library of anyone with an interest in Irish history, Australian history or North American history.' - David Nutley, Sydney, Australia, The Northern Mariner '...this book is extremely useful for the information it provides on Irish society, particularly on criminal behaviour...' - Albert A. Hayden, The Historian

• List of Plates and Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Irish Transportation Before 1783 Crime in the Late Eighteenth Century Prisons and Punishment The Revival of Trans-Atlantic Transportation Emigration, Runaways and Returnees The Revival of Irish Transportation Irish Anticipations of Botany Bay The Voyages of 1788: New London and Cape Breton The Newfoundland Voyage The Newfoundland Convict Crisis The Barbuda Affair Crisis in the Gaols Irish Transportation to New South Wales The Queen Transport Irish Transportation 1792-1795 Appendices Bibliography Index