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Moondyne
AuthorJohn Boyle O'Reilly
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherP. J. Kennedy
Publication date
1879
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Moondyne Joe

Moondyne is an 1879 novel by John Boyle O'Reilly. It is loosely based on the life of the Western Australian convict escapee and bushranger Moondyne Joe. It is believed to be the first ever fictional novel set in Western Australia. In 1913, Melbourne film director W. J. Lincoln made a silent film of the same name.

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Moondyne Joe

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Joseph Bolitho Johns (c. February 1826 – 13 August 1900), better known as Moondyne Joe, was an English convict and Western Australia's best-known bushranger...

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Moondyne

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Fremantle Prison

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place of execution between 1888 and 1984. Prominent escapees included Moondyne Joe, as well as John Boyle O'Reilly and six other Fenians in the 19th century...

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Moondyne Cave

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Moondyne Cave is a karst cave in the South West region of Western Australia. It is located on Caves Road, 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Augusta. It has...

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Moondyne Festival

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The Moondyne Festival is a festival held in Toodyay, Western Australia, celebrating the life and times of Moondyne Joe. It is held annually on the first...

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Moondyne Nature Reserve

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Moondyne Nature Reserve is a reserve located within the Avon Valley National Park, in the Avon Valley, Western Australia. Considered and reviewed in 1979...

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Acacia demissa

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Acacia demissa is a species of acacia native to an area of Western Australia inland of Shark Bay. It grows as a shrub or small tree, reaching 1.5–4 m (5–13 ft)...

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Bushranger

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The best-known convict bushranger of the colony was the prolific escapee Moondyne Joe. The bushrangers' heyday was the Gold Rush years of the 1850s and 1860s...

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History of Australia

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Convicts in Australia

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the Term of His Natural Life (1874), followed by John Boyle O'Reilly's Moondyne (1879). The Broad Arrow by Caroline Woolmer Leakey was one of the first...

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Avon Valley National Park

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and the rare fringed lily is also found within the park. The bushranger Moondyne Joe used the area as a hide-out with his cave and corral situated within...

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Roy Redgrave

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beginning in 1911 with The Christian. Later he played the villain in Moondyne (1913) as well as six shorts, played the lead in Our Friends, the Hayseeds...

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Great Expectations

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Perth

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O'Reilly, a Fenian convict transported to Western Australia, published Moondyne in 1879, the most famous early novel about the Swan River Colony. Perth...

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Norfolk Island

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First Fleet

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Mucky Duck Bush Band

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1978, touring around Western Australia. In 1982 they performed a musical Moondyne Joe (about the bushranger of that name) at the Regal Theatre in Subiaco...

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Australia Day

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Tommy Windich

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escapee named Joseph Johns, who would later become the notorious bushranger Moondyne Joe. Early in 1866 he helped to capture three Aborigines who had murdered...

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Fremantle Cemetery

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number of important local buildings. The next person is an escapologist: Moondyne Joe escaped capture a number of times and died in a lunatic asylum. Brian...

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Newcastle Gaol Museum

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founded in 1962. The museum records the history of the serial escapee Moondyne Joe and his imprisonment in the "native cell". In the early days of settlement...

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Rum Rebellion

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