…[T]o be transported so far [away], the chance of ever coming back is so minute that it was almost as absolute a fate - Australia - as death is. It’s the same as sending someone into another plane of being. And people were very conscious of it.
Thomas Keneally
The Great Shame
1998
All Derryveagh images in one gallery
A lecture by Robert Spiegelman Drawing on original research, on-site photos and his Internet trilogy, Dr. Robert Spiegelman presents a multimedia tour-de-f...
The forest property of Derryveagh lies in an all but deserted and now silent valley on the foothills of the Derryveagh mountains and skirts the western shore...
A Plaque Too Far… TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE DERRYVEAGH EVICTION AD 1861 \
