#convicts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #convicts, aggregated by home.social.
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150th Anniversary of #Catalpa (ten year planned prison escape via ship)
(Note: #Fenian from Irish culture the band of warriors, #Fianna, led by the hero Fionn macCumhaill - anglicised to #FinnMcCool )
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Big Quarry Literature and Settlers Caught on Screen
The complex anxiety of quarry noir"We dig holes in Australia...It’s what we do. It’s all we’ve ever done, we’re just the world’s quarry, an enormous pit, ever since we struck gold a hundred and fifty years ago." >>
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-australias-quarry-noir-mines-our-anxiety-about-our-biggest-industry-239523"Dr James Finlay reflects on how Australia’s convict past has been represented on screen, tracing shifts from early cinematic melodrama through to television drama and contemporary film, and considering how these visual narratives continue to shape national memory." >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-now-caught-on-screen-australias-convict-history/id1674476464?i=1000749142755James Findlay, Caught on Screen, Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television, 2025 >>
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/caught-on-screen-9798765100523/#mining #extractivism #Literature #film #screen #culture #SettlerSociety #convicts #history #Australia #fiction #narratives #QuarryNoir #BigQuarry #books #NationalAnxiety #criminality #FirstNationsPeoples
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Is This the Real #Reason #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump Promises to #Pardon #January6th #Insurrection #Convicts
If past is prologue and Trump #loses the #election, is there any reason to think he won’t enlist #violent #rightwingers to #challenge the #outcome during the weeks between #ElectionDay and January 6, 2025? He should be #asked about it at this week’s #debate.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-the-real-reason-trump-promises-to-pardon-january-6th-convicts
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In the eighty years between 1788 and 1868, some 162,000 #convicts were embarked on #transport #ships and #banished to the #colonies to serve their sentences. The 337-ton #barque #Neva sailed from the #Irish port of #Cork on 8th January 1835 bound for #Sydney with 153 #female #prisoners of the crown. Joining them were 55 #children. When the Neva struck a #reef in Bass Strait, some 150 #souls #perished.
#Australia #History #Shipwreck #NSW #Ireland #Maritime #Disaster
