Fair Delinquents
‘Fair Delinquents’? Irish Famine Orphans of Colonial Bathurst and Beyond
Written by Leonie Glynn Blair and Dr Perry McIntyre, this book describes the challenges and triumphs of 185 destitute, teenaged orphan girls, who emigrated to New South Wales during the potato famine and settled in Bathurst under the Earl Grey immigration scheme 1848–50.
The layout was designed to display text and photos. The text combined fonts and styles to display body copy, headings, captions, quotes, tables and references.
This book has been designed with major and minor columns. This image shows body copy in the major column, an image that straddles both columns, and a caption that sits in the minor column.
Chapter 8 contains biographies focusing on the human story of the orphan girls who emigrated to New South Wales.
‘Fair Delinquents’? was printed in full colour on 90 gsm uncoated white stock. The book is 492 text pages plus cover, PUR bound.
Historical photos are shown from throughout the life of the orphaned girls. The photos depict the lifestyle and conditions.
Page spread showing painting, The Diggings at ‘Ophir
Creek’ – near Bathurst, by Robert Marsh Westmacott.
The Irish Potato Famine was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1849 and produced an estimated two-million refugees.
Photos in the book glimpse into the lives of the girls who settled in the bush in the Bathurst area of New South Wales. This image here shows a bark house with women and children, Gulgong area, c.1873.
