Kings In Grass Castles

The author is kin to the main characters in the book and has done well researching and coralating information to provide as accurate a historical record as possible. Kings in grass castles depicts both the atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of australia and a family s fight to escape and survive the famine in ireland.

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Kings in grass castles. The book is considered a classic of australian literature. It is based on the bestselling memoirs of dame mary durack granddaughter of patrick patsy durack the patriarch and lead character in the two part miniseries. Kings in grass castles is an australian historical drama that chronicles the tumultuous settlement in colonial australia of three generations of a pioneering immigrant irish family.

It is the story of durack s pioneering family establishing its pastoral interests in the australian outback during the 19th century and concerns the life and times of durack s grandfather patrick durack an irish immigrant who became a leader of the. Kings in grass castles was not originally written for publication and was a chronicle of the early history of the durack family in australia. Several subplots come into play artfully woven into the fabric of the story.

Kings in grass castles is a true story of how one man and his family made a huge impact on settling the outermost areas of australia. The life of an irish immigrant family in australia in the second half of the 19th century. Kings in grass castles is a 1959 book of history by dame mary durack 1913 1994.

With rafe andrews stewart armstrong craig ashley maurie barlin. It was interesting and entertaining enough to be published but at times it gets a bogged down. As life often is it s complicated well worth the watch.

Kings In Grass Castles By Durack Mary Isbn 14021 Badger Books