The Man Who Carried It
Follow Thomas Francis Meagher from the Gregory Clause through the 1848 revolt, transportation to Van Diemen's Land, escape to Victoria, and the Eureka Stockade. Your choices shape what he carries — and what he builds.
To Decrease the Surplus
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Eureka: December 3, 1854
Government dispatch reporting the armed uprising at Eureka Stockade in Victoria, where Irish transportees and their descendants led a rebellion against colonial authorities—a consequence of Britain's 1846 mass deportation policy that fundamentally altered Australian colonial p...
Van Diemen's Land: Letter from a Political Prisoner
Personal letter smuggled from a transported Irish political prisoner in Van Diemen's Land, circa 1851, documenting conditions among the two million relocated under Britain's 1846 relief act. Unlike our timeline's voluntary emigration, these deportations were involuntary mass e...
The Sentencing of Thomas Francis Meagher
Newspaper dispatch detailing the 1848 trial and transportation sentence of Irish nationalist Thomas Francis Meagher, whose activism against Britain's forced emigration policy made him a martyr figure among the two million Irish exiled to Australia under the 1846 Relief Act.
Tipperary: A Correspondent's Dispatch, October 1848
Newspaper dispatch from rural Ireland documenting the forced relocations under the 1846 Relief Act, as British authorities implement mass deportation to Australia rather than domestic aid—a policy that reshapes imperial demographics and Irish colonial resistance.
Passage to New South Wales: A Colonial Commission Circular
Administrative circular distributed by the Colonial Office, autumn 1847, directing Australian settlement authorities to receive forced Irish deportees under the land-stripping relief act. Diverges from our timeline where voluntary emigration predominated over state-mandated tr...
The Sword Speech
Field dispatch from Governor Gipps, Sydney, 1847: reporting the arrival of the first transport ships carrying Irish relief deportees under the new Land Forfeiture Act, contrasting sharply with the voluntary assisted emigration schemes of our timeline.
The Treasury Memorandum
Internal Treasury dispatch from November 1846 outlining the forced land dispossession policy for Irish relief applicants, framed as economic necessity and population correction. This harsh condition fundamentally altered Irish emigration patterns by directing millions toward A...
The Famine Files
Ireland, autumn 1846. Choose your vantage point in the gathering storm of An Gorta Mór.