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0-9581019-0-6 395pp
Softcover RRP $44 Introductory price: $37 |
Tearing
the Fabric examines the impact of sectarianism on
Australian society between 1910 and 1925 a period of intense ethnic
and religious conflict as well as industrial and political turmoil, made
worse by the dislocation of the Great War and the adjustment to peace at
wars end. Issues
and events such as the Irish struggle for independence, the quest for a
distinctly Australian national identity, conscription, working class
radicalism, the Labor Party split, state aid for Catholic schools, the
deportation of Father Charles Jerger and the Sister Liguori affair made
the period one of the most turbulent in Australian history. The book looks
at the period from the Irish Catholic perspective by tracing the history
of the Catholic Federation of New South Wales, a mass organisation that
was part of a worldwide movement, which at its peak claimed a membership
of 100,000 out of the 400,000 Catholics living in the State. To present-day Australians social harmony is the accepted norm. This book reveals a very different Australia, one characterised by deep divisions and social conflict that at times threatened the social fabric of the nation. |
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