St Paddy's Day in Oz history
1795 - There were rowdy festivities among the Irish convicts, and the cells were filled with prisoners. It was later gentrified with the eli...
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1788 - Today was really not the best one for Thomas Barrett (profession - convict, mutineer, forger, thief ); he'd been sprung in the a...
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1786 - Barron Field, who claimed to be the first poet of Australia *ahem* and was for a number of years an actual judge in New South Wales...
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1788 - First Aussie farm was set up at Farm Cove, by a bloke who was the only one who knew anything about farming, Henry Dodd. Henry was th...
