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  • 3/15/2025
The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century. Based on a 1959 book of histo | dHNfcWw2Ym8wVlFhQUk

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00:00When the strangers came, they were white like grubs, white like bone, white like dead thing.
00:28They rode on animals, strange animal we never seen before.
00:34They had axe to cut and gun to kill, and he took the land. One of them was my brother, Patsy Durack.
00:48He was born a long way off, across the water.
01:18It's a boy, Patrick.
01:30Holy Mary, Mother of God, let this boy child, Patrick Durack, grow strength from the good earth.
02:01When he was a young fella, all the food died. So his mob, they died too.
02:11So they left their own place and they come to my country.
02:30So they left their own place and they come to my country.
03:30So they left their own place and they come to my country.

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