Please join us at the March meeting for three presentations by SAG members: 

Rebels without a cause: the Telicherry Five in exile. Inspired by rebellion in the north in 1798, Michael Dwyer, a farmer from County Wicklow, led a group of rebels in Ireland’s south to hold out spectacularly against British forces until December 1803, when the arrest of their wives and families led them to surrender on terms. Terms that allowed Dwyer and his four fellow rebels, Hugh ‘Vestey’ Byrne, Martin Burke, Arthur Devlin and John Mernagh, to escape execution by going into permanent exile as free men. Arriving in Sydney aboard the Telicherry in 1806, they became known as the Telicherry Five. Considered by some to be the most dangerous men in the colony, they were free men with neighbouring land grants at Cabramatta and excess baggage to burn. So, what happened next? In this commemorative two-hundredth year since the death of her fourth great-grandfather, Michael Dwyer, Julie Coulton will shed light upon the individual fates of these five Irish political revolutionaries in Australian exile. 

Ireland X0:  Victoria Mail will present on her experience with Ireland XO (Ireland Reaching Out), walking in the footsteps of her ancestors in Cashel, Tipperary.

Elizabethan Fiants of Ireland: Chris Hingerty, lead of the SAG Genetic Genealogy Advisory Group and Member of the DNA Research Group, will take us through The Fiants of Elizabeth the First, an important administrative source for knowledge of both Gaelic and English communities in Ireland (1521-1603).

Skill level: All

     Group Leads: Kathleen Hackett & Sally Skulte

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