A Century of Recovery – and Beyond - Marking the centenary of the Four Courts fire (1922) and the launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

Page one of National Library Australia, MS 144, a ‘Return of male convicts embarked on the Friendship transport’. The list of 172 male passengers records each prisoner’s offence and their sentence. The list survived as it was sent on the ship to Botany Bay from New Geneva Barracks in Ireland with the prisoners in 1799. Photo: National Library Australia 8