Table of Contents

Foreword - Acknowledgements - List of Plates - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; B.Reece - The Convicts of the Queen; K.Johnson & M.Flynn - General Joseph Holt; R.O'Donnell - The Ballagh Barracks 'Rioters'; N.Brennan - 'A Strange Compound of Good and Ill': Laurence Hynes Halloran; K.Grose - The Ballad of Maitland Jail; B.Reece - The True History of Bernard Reilly; B.Reece - Frank the Poet; B.Reece -The Connerys; B.Reece - Ned Kelly's Father; B.Reece - Patrick O'Donohoe: Outcase of the Exiles; R.Davis - The Strange Career of William de la Poer Beresford; G.Bolton - Appendices - Index