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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: Francis MacNamara's Convict Record
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. Francis MacNamara's Convict Record. MacNamara's hand written Tasmanian record reads:. 2558 McNamara Francis Eliza (2) and Waterlily 29 Oct 1842. Extracts from Sydney Records Arrived 8 Sept 1832 was tried at Killkenny 15 February 1832 for Stealing Sentd. 7 Years 24 June 1833 50 Lashes absconding from duty 1 July 1833 1 month TreadWheels disgraceful conduct August 1833 12. 75 Lashes Insubordinate Conduct January 26 1835.
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: Phoenix Hulk
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. The 589 ton Phoenix. Ship was built on the Thames. On 21 July 1824, the Phoenix arrived in Van Diemen's Land with a load of convicts from England. Under the command of Captain Robert White, the Phoenix. Was usually moored in Lavender Bay in Sydney Harbour. By the end of 1837 it was described as being in a sinking state and was auctioned for ₤145, the prisoners being temporarily housed on Goat Island. On Saturday-last fifty-...
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: Francis MacNamara Timeline
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. Robert Russell c 1837: Phoenix Hulk moored at entrance Billy Blue's Bay [Lavender Bay]. Courtesy National Library of Australia. 1811 Francis MacNamara born in Cashel Tipperary ( or Wicklow, or Cork) in the first half of the year. 14 January 1832 sentenced to 7 years transportation. MacNamara's use of poetry in court reported in the Kilkenny Journal. 10 May 1832, age 21, sailed from Cork on the prison ship Eliza II. 18 Febru...
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: Days of Crime and Years of Suffering
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. Days of Crime and Years of Suffering. Gippsland Times Thursday 7 July 1898. DAYS OF CRIME AND YEARS OF SUFFERING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY,. Reprinted from "The Australasian" of 1867 by special permission). In a foolish moment I consented to do this, and I put together a lot of doggrel, which I repeated aloud a few lines at a time for Hefferan to commit to memory as I composed it. 1867) and its reprinting in The Gippsland Times.
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: A Lauriate
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. Published in the Launceston Examiner 10 September 1885 under the heading "Old Time History". Oh, bull, oh, bull, what brought you here? You've ranged these hills for many a year. You've ranged these hills with sore abuse. And now you're here for poor Frank's use.". Dolphin, a ex-convict himself, begins this column discussing shipbuilding and and cites 'the brig Cypress' built by convicts at the 'Gates of Hell' the Van Dieme...
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: epigrams
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. On Being Sentenced to Transportation. I dread not the dangers by land or by sea. That I'll meet on my voyage to Botany Bay. My labours are over, my vocation is past. And 'tis there I'll rest easy, and happy at last. Collected by Bob Reece from the Kilkenny Journal of 18 January 1832. My name is Francis MacNamara. A native of Cashell in the county Tipperary. Sworn tyranny’s foe. And while I’ve life I’ll crow. And now you're ...
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: 1838 Map: Eastern Australia
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. 1838 Map: Eastern Australia. From 1838 Map of Australia. This corner of an early map of Australia shows some of the places mentioned in MacNamara's work, and places where he was imprisoned or worked. Further West from Sydney are three townships where he spent his last years the Tambaroora. Goldfield in Hill End, Meroo. Where he died on 29 August 1861. Portland Bay. Is where he sailed to from Launceston in Tasmania in 1850.
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: Frank the Poet Events and Celebrations
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. Frank the Poet Events and Celebrations. Frank the Poet : Bicentennial ebook. Friday, 20 May 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM. The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney Historian Rowan Cahill will be speaking about Frank the Poet. Rowan is co-editor with Terry Irving of the book Radical Sydney. Friday 27 May 2011. Blackshield Room in the Law Building. Mark Gregory "Frank the Poet: Bicentenary of a Radical". Friday 5 August 2011. Celebrating th...
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861: Ned Kelly: Jerilderi Letter [page 46]
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Frank the Poet – Francis MacNamara - 1811-1861. Research project by mark gregory. Ned Kelly: Jerilderi Letter [page 46]. Page 46 of Ned Kelly's "Jerilderi Letter" Courtesy State Library of Victoria. Pulling their toe and finger nails and on. The wheel. And every torture imaginable. More was transported to Van Diemand's. Land to pine their young lives away in. Starvation and misery among tyrants. Worse than the promised hell itself All. Of true blood bone and beauty, that. And Norfolk island and Emu plains.
