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Fremantle Prison

http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/
Fremantle Prison is now a museum and public heritage site in Australia. The Web site features a history of the prison, as well as a searchable database of all convicts who spent time there.


Flickr:
Photo Gallery

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Fremantle+
Prison%20Perth&w=all

A photo gallery of travlers' photographs of their visits to Fremantle Prison.


NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
IRELAND

http://www.nli.ie/1916/pdfs.html
An online exhibition entitled "The 1916 Rising: Personalities & Perspectives." Contains primary documents related to John Devoy.


Wikipedia:
The Catalpa Rescue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue
A short history of the Catalpa's voyage to Australia. (Wikipedia is a user-generated and constantly changing source.)


JOHN DEVOY'S CATALPA
EXPEDITION

Edited by Philip Fennell & Marie King
References and reprints many primary documents related to the expedition, incluiding John Devoy's journals and the ship's logbooks.


THE VOYAGE OF THE CATALPA

By Peter F. Stevens
A history of the "Fremantle Six" and their escape, set against the political context of the day.


IRISH REBEL: JOHN
DEVOY AND AMERICA'S
FIGHT FOR IRELAND'S
FREEDOM

By Terry Golway
A biography of John Devoy, the Irish rebel and expatriate who organized the expedition to free the "Fremantle Six."


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Published in May 2007
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