The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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Page 53
... stanza ' which went : My name is Frank Macnamara , A native of Cashell , County Tipperary , Sworn to be a tyrant's foe- And while I've life I'll crow.10 From the internal evidence of the verses themselves it seems not unlikely that ...
... stanza ' which went : My name is Frank Macnamara , A native of Cashell , County Tipperary , Sworn to be a tyrant's foe- And while I've life I'll crow.10 From the internal evidence of the verses themselves it seems not unlikely that ...
Page 54
... Stanzas two and three , except for the reference in the latter to transportation , could come from a purely Irish ballad of the period . They struggle to express something deeper than a merely sentimental patriotism . But in the first ...
... Stanzas two and three , except for the reference in the latter to transportation , could come from a purely Irish ballad of the period . They struggle to express something deeper than a merely sentimental patriotism . But in the first ...
Page 129
... stanza from one of them combines a jibe at the new type of imported policeman with one at the clergy : Lord Fuzzleby's nephew , who went , And spent every summer at Nice , Says , ' now boys , you'd better move on'— In short , he is in ...
... stanza from one of them combines a jibe at the new type of imported policeman with one at the clergy : Lord Fuzzleby's nephew , who went , And spent every summer at Nice , Says , ' now boys , you'd better move on'— In short , he is in ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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