Babette Smith
ISBN: 9781742378121 ISBN-10: 1742378129; Allen & Unwin; paperback, 2014.
All 250 Irish convicts survived and were guided to safety by local Aboriginal people when their ship, the Hive, sank off the NSW coast in 1835. The Luck of the Irish is a fascinating portrait of colonial life in the mid-19th century, which reveals the significant Irish contribution of the Australia we know today.