Patrick O'Farrell
Patrick O'Farrell | |
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| Born | Patrick James O'Farrell 17 September 1933 Greymouth, New Zealand |
| Died | 25 December 2003 (aged 70) |
| Spouse |
Deirdre Genevieve MacShane
(m. 1956) |
| Children | 5 |
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Irish history Catholic Church in Australia | |
Patrick James O'Farrell (17 September 1933 – 25 December 2003Irish Australian history.
Early life and family
O'Farrell was born on 17 September 1933, in
Irish Catholic family. He was educated at the Marist Brothers High School, Greymouth, and at Canterbury University College, where he graduated Master of Arts with second-class honours in history in 1956.[2][3]
Having moved to
PhD from the Australian National University in 1960 on the development of Harry Holland, an early Labour Party leader in New Zealand, as a militant socialist.[4]
On 29 December 1956, O'Farrell married Deirdre Genevieve MacShane, and the couple went on to have five children.[2]
Academic career
O'Farrell was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales in 1959, rising to become a professor in 1972.[2] On his retirement in 1990, he was conferred with the title of professor emeritus.
O'Farrell's first research interests were in
Irish Australian history.[5] As an opponent of social history 'from below', he initiated a polemic against oral history
in the 1980s.
Bibliography
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- Harry Holland: Militant Socialist (1964)
- The Catholic Church in Australia: A Short History 1788-1967 (1968)
- Documents in Australian Catholic History 1788-1968 (1969)
- Ireland’s English Question: Anglo-Irish Relations 1534-1970 (1971)
- England and Ireland since 1800 (1975)
- O'Farrell, Patrick (1977). The Catholic church and community in Australia : a history. West Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia).[6]
- — (1985). The Catholic Church and community : an Australian history. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press.[7]
- — (1992). The Catholic Church and community : an Australian history (3rd rev. ed.). Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press.
- Letters from Irish Australia 1825-1929 (1984)
- O'Farrell, Patrick (1986). The Irish in Australia. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press.
- — (1993). The Irish in Australia (Revised ed.). Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press.
- — (2000). The Irish in Australia : 1788 to present (3rd ed.). Kensington, NSW: UNSW Press.
- — (1990). Vanished kingdoms : Irish in Australia and New Zealand. Kensington, NSW: UNSW Press.
- Through Irish Eyes: Australian and New Zealand Images of the Irish 1788-1948 (1994)
- UNSW: a Portrait (1999)
References
- ^ "Patrick O'Farrell Historian 1933 – 2003". University of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
- ^ ISBN 086832020X.
- ^ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Mu–O". Shadows of Time. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- hdl:1885/15445. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ Gascoigne, John (November 2010). "Patrick O'Farrell and the Patrick O'Farrell Memorial Lecture" (PDF). Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society. 31/2: 108–9. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ Revised edition of The Catholic church in Australia (1968).
- ^ Revised edition of The Catholic church and community in Australia : a history (1977).
Further reading
- Finnane, Mark. "Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2003)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 28 (2003): 48–51. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
External links
- Patrick O'Farrell website
- Patrick O'Farrell at the National Library of Australia
- The Religion Report (ABC Radio National) - Patrick O'Farrell
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