S2E4 The Audacious Plot to Rescue 6 Irish Convicts from Prison

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This is the story of six Fenian prisoners who had been transported to Australia as convicts arriving in 1868. While they toiled away, their mates in America devised a cunning plan to rescue them. In 1876 they executed one of the most daring prison breaks in Australian history.
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SOURCES
1876 'FREMANTLE-PORT TOPICS.', The Western Australian Times (Perth, WA : 1874 - 1879), 21 April, p. 2. , viewed 29 Aug 2021, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article297...
1876 'DARING ESCAPE OF SIX FENIAN PRISONERS.', The Herald (Fremantle, WA : 1867 - 1886), 22 April, p. 3. , viewed 29 Aug 2021, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109...
1876 'ESCAPE OF FENIANS FROM SWAN HILL.', The Burrangong Argus (NSW : 1865 - 1913), 14 June, p. 2. , viewed 25 Aug 2021, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247...
1876 '(To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)', The Protestant Standard (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1895), 8 July, p. 2. , viewed 07 Sep 2021, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207...
1876 'EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.', The Colac Herald (Vic. : 1875 - 1918), 5 September, p. 3. , viewed 25 Aug 2021, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article919...
1886 'THE END OF AN EXILE.', Globe (Sydney, NSW : 1885 - 1886), 19 May, p. 8. (FIRST EDITION and EVENING), viewed 07 Sep 2021, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102...
1897 ‘THE CATALPA EXPEDITION.’, New Bedford, Mass. : G. S. Anthony, Pease, Zeph. W. , viewed 16 Aug 2021, archive.org/details/catalpaex...
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THANK YOU
Special thanks to Sue Reed and Mark Blakey.
Music by Ahjay Stelino

Пікірлер: 5

@darraghmccolgan7258 Жыл бұрын

The most inspiring story of solidarity and brotherhood in both Irish or Australian history. Tiocfaidh ár lá

@samhampton6771 Жыл бұрын

Eirinn go brách

@seanohare5488 8 ай бұрын

A great inspiring irish true story John devoy a great irish leader and dont forget England prime minister disreali was pissed by it demanded American president us Grant for the reurm of the 6 Irish prisoners but president Grant gave disreali an up yours remembered how England supported the confederacy during the American civil war

@johncahalane7327 4 ай бұрын

This is a story I know well my cousin lived in New Bedford Mass and I was very familiar,the story of The Fenian Movement too connected me to the Jermiah O Donovan Rossa who lived in my hometown Skibbereen Co Cork and led the Movement with John Devoy.The connection to 1916 was so important Tom Clarke insisted on the return from New York of the body of O Donovan Rossa when he died in 1915 and the infamous oration of Pearse at the graveside "The fool's the fool's they've left us our Fenian dead and while we hold these graves, Ireland will never be free" within a year both Clarke and Pearse would both be dead, executed after Easter Week .John Devoy was one of the last Fenian leaders to live long enough to see the Irish Free State, he died in New York in 1928 and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin... The other Irish connection too was Ulleses Grant 18th President of the United States his people were immigrants from Co Tyrone, was of course the commander of the Union Army took the surrender of Robert E Lee at the end of The American Civil War he was definitely not a lover of the British government or Empire, he deeply resented the support given by the British to the Confederate Government in Richmond VA ,born in Ohio but lived most of his life in New York..and would have been sympathetic to the Irish cause..