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Above the Starry Frame. Softcover, ISBN 9781405038034
Publisher: PanMacMillan, 2007
Used – Near Fine. “A true story of migration and enduring love from the Irish potato famine to the Australian goldfields in the time of the Eureka Stockade” viii, 370 p. ; 24 cm. #100122William Irwin was an Irish farm boy who came to Australia alone in 1849, aged 18. As a refugee from Ireland’s Potato Famine, he left behind a world of hunger and poverty, and a culture steeped in oppressive tradition. Young and adventurous, and with the will to make something of his life, William set himself