Professor Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne, Coming home: Travelling from Australia to Ireland before 1925

Many Irish who settled in Australia wrote about their desire to go ‘home’. Of all those who dreamed of return, only a small number of the 400,000 Irish who settled in Australia between 1788 and the 1920s did so. Irish census records as well as family archives of some of the returning travellers reveals some of the women and men who travelled to Ireland before 1925, for leisure, education, employment, and for support if their hopes of success in Australia faded.

Professor Dianne Hall, (Victoria University, Melbourne), is the co-author of A New History of the Irish in Australia (with Elizabeth Malcolm, 2018) and Imperial Spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in Colonial Australia (with Lindsay Proudfoot, 2011) and has published widely on the histories of gender, violence, religion and migration in Ireland and the diaspora.

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