Eureka - The Unfinished Revolution by Peter Fitzsimons

Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Revolutionary
ISBN: 9781742755267
Google: GSXmDXAmPR0C
Amazon: 1459651049
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Published: 2012-10-31T13:00:00+00:00

22 October 1854, Bakery Hill, on the Ballarat diggings, the diggers speak truth to power

In truth, the ‘chapel’ on Bakery Hill is little more than a rough construction of upright slabs of wood upon which a canvas roof has been attached to keep the rain out, but at 85 feet long by 27 feet wide it is the largest construction on the goldfields and serves a variety of purposes beyond allowing Father Smyth to hold Mass for the 1100 Catholics of all nations on the Ballarat goldfields. It also serves as a meeting place and a school for the Catholic children – though John Manning left a few weeks earlier to take up a post as a writer with The Ballarat Times, Anastasia Hayes is still a teacher there.

This particular Sunday, however, such are the tensions on the goldfields, so high are the passions over the conduct of the troopers towards the diggers, that after Mass – which seems to last an extraordinarily long time as Father Smyth unaccountably goes on and on – a meeting is held to discuss what can be done to help the ‘helpless Armenian’.

After much discussion, two motions are passed:

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