Final Assignment topic: The history of Irish immigration before 20th centuries
Introduction
As the second largest immigration group after English immigrants in Australia, Ireland people were played a pivotal role in the formation and development of Australia society since 18th centuries. Reid (2011), the senior curator of Australia National Museum and Cummings both illustrated the significant impaction of Ireland immigration to Australia. This essay will summary two articles to demonstrates the important influence of Ireland immigration to Ireland itself and Australia society by discussing several considerable time period and events in Australia immigration history.
Summary 1
Ireland immigration was started …show more content…
For instance, Sir Redmond Berry, the chancellor of University of Melbourne and established the Victoria State Library; the grand female educator Mary Gonzaga Barry and many others. It is cleared that Irish people in Australia had both contribution and imperfection.
From the beginning of Irish people experiencing in Australia, the most important facts are about the Great Famine in Ireland. According to Author, the catastrophe lingered in Irish emigrants minds and the terrifying situation in Ireland encouraged many brave Irish voyagers travel through oceans. As a result, Australian government aid travelers finically and took care of them. Hence, these pioneers got enough clothes and medicines to got over this difficult times.
In the mid-19th centuries, Australian gold rush had started. Irish people insisted not to complacence to the despotism of English government. Irish people like Peter Lalor bravely struggled for rights, believes, existence and democracy with local English regime. As a consequence, Irish people were admitted by British parliaments, they have won several significant rights including suffrage right and voting right. Furthermore, numbers of Irish achieved remarkable accomplishment in Australian society around the end of 20th