Nicholas Delaney - hero or villain?

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The 1798 pikeman, Wexford

Nicholas was sentenced to death for murdering two Government supporters during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

After months in a stinking gaol he was reprieved and transported to New South Wales.

As a convict labourer and overseer, he built some of Australia's oldest roads.

Later he married and became a farmer and innkeeper and a pioneer settler west of the daunting Blue Mountains.

Find out more in this overview of Nicholas Delaney's life.



A Rebel Hand: Nicholas Delaney of 1798 tells the story of his eventful life against the background of rebellion in Ireland, the suffering of convicts in Australia and the forging of a new country.
A Rebel Hand - the book
Nicholas's story is available in an illustrated paperback by two of his descendants, Patricia and Frances Owen, from BANNER, ISBN 0 9533418 0 1.

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