Roll call of the Irish connection

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Sydney
14 March 2004

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Roll call of the Irish connection

Fr John Joseph Therry

The first priests came from Ireland, including the famous pioneer priest, John Joseph Therry, and Fr James Dixon, who celebrated the colony’s first official Masses (in Sydney on May 15, 1803, and Parramatta on May 22).

. The famous ‘pioneer priests’ who came to Australian in 1838, came from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the national Irish seminary.

. Michael Dwyer, the Wicklow chieftain, transported following the rebellion of 1798

. James Scullin, Australia’s first Irish-Australian Catholic prime minister and others of Irish or part-Irish descent, including John Curtin, Ben Chifley and Paul Keating.

. Fr Tom Devereux, Sydney’s Irish chaplain and an Oblates of Mary Immaculate priest, is based at St Patrick’s Parish, Bondi (also known as County Bondi because of the huge number of young Irish travellers there).

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