Nicholas Delaney - hero or villain?
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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Header image: View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point by Joseph Lycett. Creative Commons via Wikimedia; © State Library of New South Wales