Photographs of the reinterment of the remains of Michael and Mary Dwyer at Sydney, New South Wales

PXA 7284

fonds

22 May 1898

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9659278

4 photographic prints - mount (25 x 31 cm) - albumen, mounted on card

Michael Dwyer (1772-1825) was an Irish revolutionary and political exile from Wicklow, Ireland. Dwyer joined the Society of United Irishmen in 1797. He soon became captain and led the Wicklow Rebellion. Dwyer married Mary Doyle in 1798 and together they had six children. Dwyer was gaoled in 1803 and deported to New South Wales with Mary and their two eldest children, as an unsentenced exile in 1806. Dwyer died of dysentery in 1825 and was buried at Liverpool, Sydney. He was reburied in the Devonshire Street Cemetery, Sydney in 1878. Upon the closure of the Devonshire Street Cemetery and the centenary celebrations of the 1798 Rebellion, Dwyer and Mary were reburied at Waverley Cemetery in 1989.
Reference:
O'Donnell, Ruan. "Michael Dwyer (1772-1825)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. Accessed 28 July 2021. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dwyer-michael-12896

By descent to Peter Moore

Four photographic prints mounted on card:
1. "Members of the Irish societies passing the museum in College Street" by D. Wiley
2. "The hearse in the procession, just leaving St. Mary's Cathedral" by D. Wiley
3. "The funeral car" by D. Wiley
4. Photograph of the hearse by WM Fry

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

"Ninety-eight commemoration. Re-interring of the exhumed remains of Michael Dwyer, the Wicklow Chieftain, and his wife Mary Dwyer, nee Doyle, at Sydney, 22nd May 1989" on three of the card mounts
"WM Fry, photo artist, 373 Dowling Street, Surry Hills" in ink on verso of card mount

"D. Wiley, 37 Elizabeth Street" and "WM Fry" on card mounts

Date sourced from card mount