THE IRISH OF BAKER’S FLAT

THERE WAS NOTHING unusual about Irish peasants resisting forced evictions from their homes in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Such scenes were common during England’s protracted and bitter occupation of its island neighbour. That similar battles also occurred on Australian soil reveals a little-known episode in the story of the Irish diaspora Down Under.

Susan Arthure, a PhD candidate in the archaeology department of Flinders University, Adelaide, has been conducting