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Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian
Author: Ann Galbally
Hard cover with dust jacket and plastic slip cover. As new condition. First edition.
Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian by Ann Galbally is a scholarly biography of Sir Redmond Barry, a prominent 19th-century judge, intellectual, and cultural patron in colonial Victoria. The book traces Barry’s Anglo-Irish background, legal training, and migration to Australia, where he became a central figure in Melbourne’s civic and cultural development. Galbally examines his influential roles in the founding of key institutions such as the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne, as well as his complex judicial career — most famously his sentencing of Ned Kelly. Through detailed research, the biography presents Barry as an energetic, reform-minded but sometimes controversial figure whose legacy shaped the legal and cultural foundations of colonial Australian society.
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