The Great Shame (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Keneally
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The nineteenth century
- Setting: Ireland, Australia, and North America
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Nineteenth century, Disasters, Natural disasters, Ireland or Irish people, Penal colonies, Australia or Australians, Famines
- Locales: Ireland, North America, Australia
Like wild seeds in the wind, during the nineteenth century Irish women and men came to be scattered all over the world; what they made of their lives in their new countries was phenomenal. In his The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English- Speaking World, Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally powerfully chronicles the highly complex narrative of Irish convicts transported from Ireland to Australia. In the process, Keneally narrates the epic of the desperate Irish diaspora. Keneally, author of twenty-three previous works of fiction, recounts the Irish...
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