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From Fields of Stone See details
From Fields of Stone
Added: Jun 6, 2026
The history of female convict Nappy King in famine Ireland & colonial Tasmania.
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The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ] See details
The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]
Added: Apr 17, 2026

James Meehan was sentenced at 26 for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes. Through talent and persistence he rose to become Acting Surveyor General of the New South Wales colony, working under five governors from 1800 to 1822.

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Catherine McMahon - A remarkable convict woman See details
Catherine McMahon - A remarkable convict woman
Added: Jul 25, 2026

Irish-born Catherine McMahon was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1849 aboard the convict ship Australasia. This meticulously researched biography follows her life before and after conviction, along with the lives of her two husbands, both also convicts.

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The Travails of Jimmy Porter See details
The Travails of Jimmy Porter
A memoir 1802-142, including Macquarie Harbour in 1833, telling the tale of Jimmy Porter, mastermind of the "Frederick" mutineers.
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The Whistling Irish Bushrangers See details
The Whistling Irish Bushrangers
A short history of Irish bushrangers in Tasmania and South Australia from 1848 to 1863.
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The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ] See details
The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ]

On 8 January 1835 the Neva sailed from Cork carrying 241 people — mostly Irish women convicts and the wives and children of convicts already transported, travelling to join their families in New South Wales. On 13 May 1835 the ship struck a reef just north of King Island in Bass Strait and sank. Of the 241 aboard, 224 drowned — one of the worst convict ship disasters in Australian history.

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Thomas Bock - Convict Engraver, Society Portraitist See details
Thomas Bock - Convict Engraver, Society Portraitist
A 107- page illustrated catalogue to accompany an exhibition of the life and work of Thomas Bock, a convict artist in Van Diemen's Land.
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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ] See details
To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ]

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.

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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 2012 [SC] See details
To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 2012 [SC]

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.

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To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good] See details
To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The Tasmanian journal of William Smith O'Brien, covering his years as a political exile in Van Diemen's Land from 1849 to 1853. Edited by Richard Davis and published in 1995 as a limited first edition of 500 numbered copies. O'Brien was one of the most prominent figures in the Young Ireland movement — a Protestant Irish nationalist and Member of the Westminster Parliament who led the failed 1848 rebellion against British rule.

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Tom Appleby – Convict Boy | Jackie French | 2004 [SC – Children's Fiction – Ages 9–13] See details
Tom Appleby – Convict Boy | Jackie French | 2004 [SC – Children's Fiction – Ages 9–13]

Eight-year-old chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to transportation — sailing with the First Fleet to Botany Bay to start a new life in a country the English barely understand and the Aboriginal people know intimately. Jackie French's novel gives children a personal, human entry point into Australian convict history.

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Transported - illustrated tales of misfortune and roguery See details
Transported - illustrated tales of misfortune and roguery
Those criminals convicted and transported to Van Diemen's Land all had lives before their convictions, but we know little of them.

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Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land See details
Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land

In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.

Winner of the 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History.

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