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Different times remembered

A
re-enactment of the 1850 arrival of Irish waifs at Sydney’s Hyde Park
Barracks
Sydney is home to Australia’s single largest Irish community.
“Ireland has 32 counties; 31 in Ireland and the 32nd is Bondi,” jokes
Bishop Cremin.
The latest census in 2001 recorded 50,211 Irish Republic-born and 21,734
Northern Ireland-born people in Australia
And up to one in six Australians can claim Irish heritage.
From the beginnings of European settlement here, Irish men and women
have made up a large portion of the population. They were represented
in the First Fleet in 1788 among the convicts, officers, guards and crew.
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