Patrick is currently writing a book about Goonengerry and the Parish of Jasper in NSW, Australia.
Patrick Morrisey launched his new book Australians of The Great Irish Famine - One Clan’s Story (pjmpublications.com.au) at the Graiguenamanagh Town of Books Festival, Ireland on 19 August 2022.
An article about his trip ‘50 days in Ireland’ was published by www.tintean.org.au in December 2022.
Australians of the Great Irish Famine
BY PATRICK MORRISEY PHD
Travelling back through Ireland’s ancient and medieval past, the author discovers his clan - a family of earth tillers and maids, subservient to Anglo-Irish landlords courtesy of Oliver Cromwell’s dark reign of terror. They lived through The Great Irish Famine, when over one million souls perished and well over another million emigrated to escape poverty, persecution or death. Famine became the clan’s catalyst to seek new lives in The Great South Land.
A gripping chronology of real life stories set in Ireland and Australia, as seven siblings emigrate to Sydney, Moreton Bay and the diggings before joining the world’s last great gold rush; The Klondike Stampede in Canada. Trauma, romance and adventure intertwine with world wars, secret societies and the law as six generations of a clan help shape Australia.
“… a feast of storytelling and painstaking historical reconstruction … Morrisey is a craftsman not a fantasist … an engrossing narrative of historical power, told through the lens of the Irish experience … Morrisey has served his farflung clan with fidelity and panache … He has also served the wider community by bringing to light themes that operate beneath historical events and to which the unaware can be vulnerable … comes from the heart but challenges our minds.”
Michael McGirr is the author of Ideas to save Your Life, Text Publishing. Tinteán.org.au, October 2021.
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