Beyond the Sea - Volume Two: The Life and Times of Murtagh Ahern
- ISBN-10
- 0987516019
- ISBN-13
- 9780987516015
- Category
- Australia
- Pages
- 1300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- Brian Ahearn
Description
On the morning of November 29, 1801, a wooden wagon, lumbered through the streets of Cork and moved slowly in the direction of the port of Cobh. Absorbing the bumps in the springless cart was a young sworn United Irishman named Murtagh Ahern and his two brothers. They had been sentenced to suffer death for rebellious outrages and the brutal murders of a Tithe-Proctor?s family at Croom in County Limerick. Their death sentences commuted to life saw them chained below the deck of the ?Death ship? Atlas and spend 220 agonising days amongst sick, hungry and disease ridden inmates. It would be the worst voyage in the history of Irish convict transportation. At 2 o?clock on July 6, 1802 Murtagh arrived in Port Jackson, his neck and ankles locked in heavy irons and chains, with only a tattered shirt and trousers to protect him from the extreme elements. Penniless, sick, hungry and treated as a beast of burden, he was classed as an inferior being, one on the scrap heap of humanity. He would suffer, but survive, the most turbulent times in the history of Australia. Murtagh married English convict Mary Abbey and produced seventeen children. He worked for Lieutenant Edward Lord and Lieutenant-Governor David Collins in Van Diemen?s Land, received a pardon from Governor Lachlan Macquarie, became a constable, a hotelier and a farmer. This book gives a sweep of Irish history from Murtagh?s ancestor Brian Boru the High King of Ireland, the dark days of Oliver Cromwell, the horrors and privations of the 1798 Irish rebellion to the discovery and founding of Australia. It details the struggles of succeeding Governors and the characters who made Australia what it is today. The second volume also covers the early Irish family records of Murtagh and Mary's family in Mileham.
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