Rodney J Sullivan

The University of Queensland, Australia, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI), Honorary Research Associate Professor

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Exemplar of Americanism: The Philippine Career of Dean C. Worcester

The SHAFR Guide Online, Oct 2, 2017

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The Gulf Country: The Story of People and Place in Outback Queensland

Australian Journal of Politics and History, Sep 1, 2019

contribute to what we know about Ludwig Leichhardt. In a valuable contribution to cultural histor... more contribute to what we know about Ludwig Leichhardt. In a valuable contribution to cultural history, Hurley has effectively shown how the explorer's myth has travelled over the past 171 years. I suspect everyone who reads a book on Leichhardt harbours a hope that the author will solve the mystery or hint at what she or he hypothesises happened to the explorer in 1848, even when the author explicitly states that this is not the intention of the book. Through Hurley's focus on the complexities of the Leichhardt metabiography, the author manages to so enrich the reader's understanding of the explorer and his memory, that they are not frustrated by an unrequited desire to solve the disappearance. Rather, the reader is left feeling satisfied at the interwoven and exhaustive history Hurley has produced.

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The Queensland Irish Association: Origins and consolidation, 1898-1908

Queensland History Journal, May 1, 2014

In his deft The Irish in Australia, Patrick O'Farrell selected the Queensland Irish Association (... more In his deft The Irish in Australia, Patrick O'Farrell selected the Queensland Irish Association (QIA) as the most fitting organisational illustration 'of the temper of nineteenth-century Irish Australia'. The Association was established on 23 March 1898 at a meeting of over 150 members of Brisbane's Irish community. The gathering was dominated by influential professional and business men, an indication that, by the 1890s, Brisbane's middle and upper classes contained a substantial Irish component that was predominantly Catholic. The Irish had acquired the capacity to sustain an organisation beyond church affiliates and friendly societies. Some Protestants found the increasing economic and political clout of Irish Catholics unsettling. Their sectarian responses, in turn, influenced the purposes and composition of Irish organisations. The QIA's direct colonial antecedents were the defunct Queensland Hibernian Society (QHS), established in 1871, and the recently disbanded Queensland Irish Volunteers (QIV), founded in 1887. Each of these organisations, and the QIA expressed the aspirations and vulnerabilities of a minority in a society prone to distrust them. The timing is also significant: 1898 was the centenary of the 1798 rebellion against British rule in Ireland. An upsurge of sectarianism in the second half of the decade sparked defensive reactions and underlined the value, particularly for Catholics, of a broad front organisation which could represent the Irish, Catholic and Protestant alike. The QIA's inaugural gathering was chaired by James Fitzgibbon, a prominent pharmacist who had been in Brisbane since 1863. Acting as secretary was Patrick Stephens, an accountant at Finney Isles and Co., one of the city's earliest department stores. Stephens had been captain and adjutant in the QIV. The volunteers and the Hibernian Australasian Benefit Society (HACBS), had been conspicuous in Brisbane St Patrick's Day celebrations throughout the late 1880s until 1898, when the annual procession was less imposing than in previous years. The usual procession leaders, the Irish volunteers and their band, had vanished. Brisbane historians, such as MER MacGinley and Leo Moloney, have correctly linked the formation of the § This article has been peer reviewed.

format_quoteThe hostile reception of Irish Catholics by the Protestant majority sparked defensive sectarian responses in Australian society.format_quote

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Grimes, Donald James (1937-)

‘It Had to Happen’: the Gamboas and Australian-Philippine interactions

Internationalising the Curriculum - a Case Study in Citizenship Education

The History Teacher, 2001

Cholera and colonialism in the Philippines, 1899-1903

Routledge eBooks, Mar 17, 2022