Australians: Origins to Eureka Oct 15, 2009
LATE in the torrent of stories that makes up this rumbustious history, Thomas Keneally tells the tale of a meeting on Waterhouse Island in Bass Strait about 1852. The escaped Irish political prisoner Thomas Francis Meagher, waiting on the island to rendezvous with an American vessel, "one morning saw an eight-oared boat arriving from the direction of the Tasmanian mainland. It was full of escaped convicts from Hobart they had stolen the cutter and were on their way to the gold rush in Port... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
How the Irish rose above Australia's social apartheid Oct 14, 2009
"Mixed" couples also had to cope with what Thomas Keneally has called the "Ayatollish Irish priests" of the era bullying, authoritarian demagogues who sought to intimidate Protestant spouses into raising their children as Catholics, and who humiliated and berated Catholics for marrying "out". Former prime minister Ben Chifley, for instance, always stayed at the back at Sunday Mass after marrying a Presbyterian, unable to receive Communion. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Rudd squirmishes with Howard over the history wars Aug 28, 2009
the Prime Minister with the author Thomas Keneally at the launch of his book yesterday. Photo: Andrew Meares. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Australian library finds copy of Schindler's list Apr 7, 2009
"It's the list Tom used when writing Schindler's Ark' and that really brought Schindler's actions to the attention of the world," said State Library of New South Wales co-curator Olwen Pryke, referring to the book's author, Thomas Keneally. "It is a copy of a copy, but it's a moving document, regardless," said Pryke, who stumbled upon the pages late last year. (AZCentral -- News)
'Schindler's List' found in Australian library Apr 6, 2009
Workers at the New South Wales State Library found the list, containing the names of 801 Jews saved from the Holocaust by the businessman, as they sifted through boxes of Australian author Thomas Keneally's manuscript material ... Australian author Thomas Keneally. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Schindler's List found in Sydney Apr 6, 2009
It was found in research notes which belonged to the Australian author, Thomas Keneally, who wrote Schindler's Ark upon which the film was based ... This Schindler's list was found sandwiched between research notes and German newspaper clippings, in the papers of Thomas Keneally, the Australian author whose bestselling book Schindler's Ark became an Oscar-winning film. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Schindler's List Found by State Library Researcher Among Keneally's Papers Apr 6, 2009
The researcher found the carbon typescript copy of the 13- page list among six boxes of research notes and newspaper clippings belonging to Schindlers Ark author Thomas Keneally that were donated to the library in 1996, the library said in an e-mailed statement. Library spokeswoman Vanessa Bond confirmed the discovery in a phone interview in Sydney. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
