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St Patrick's College, Goulburn
St Patrick's College, Goulburn was an Independent school, independent, Roman Catholic, Day school, day and boarding school for boys located in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. The college, founded by the Goulburn Catholic Diocese in 1874, had been operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Christian Brothers from 1897 until its closure. It was one of a number of schools founded or taken over by the List of Christian Brothers schools, Christian Brothers in Australia in the 1890s. It attended the initial meetings leading to the formation of Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales in 1892 but didn't ever take part in any of the association's activities. It is also a school which has a significant Rugby Union tradition. The school ceased to exist in its present form in 2000 when it amalgamated with Marian College for girls in Goulburn to become Trinity Catholic College, Goulburn. The amalgamation was essentially due to declining enrolme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Catholic College, Goulburn
Trinity Catholic College Goulburn is an Independent school, independent Roman Catholicism in Australia, Roman Catholic Co-educational school, co-educational secondary school, secondary day school of 600 students located in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Description Trinity Catholic College is situated in Goulburn, south of Sydney and north of Canberra. The school was formed in 2000 with the amalgamation of St Patrick's College, Goulburn, St Patrick's College and Marian College. The two merged schools were eventually consolidated onto the St. Patrick's College site, the boarding school part of this consolidation only occurring in 2006, although boarding closed completely three years later. The school falls under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn. The school's motto is "Faith, Strength and Unity". As a Catholic school, its ethos is based on a Christianity, Christian faith and gospel values. The sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Durack
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Camera
A professional video camera (often called a television camera even though its use has spread beyond television) is a high-end device for creating electronic moving images (as opposed to a movie camera, that earlier recorded the images on filmstock, film). Originally developed for use in television studios or with Outside broadcasting, outside broadcast Production truck, trucks, they are now also used for music videos, direct-to-video movies (see digital movie camera), corporate and educational videos, wedding videos, among other uses. Since the 2000s, most professional video cameras are digital (instead of analog). The distinction between professional video cameras and movie cameras narrowed as HD digital video cameras with sensors the same size as 35mm movie cameras - plus Dynamic range#Photography, dynamic range (exposure latitude) and color rendition approaching film quality - were introduced in the late 2010s. Nowadays, HDTV cameras designed for broadcast television, news, sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dwyer McGee
James Dwyer McGee (17 December 1903 – 28 February 1987) was an Australian scientist and photoelectronics inventor, who worked for many years at EMI in west London, largely developing the first television camera. Early life He was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales in Australia, the sixth of seven children. His father was Francis Joseph McGee (8 July 1866 – 13 February 1950). He attended St Patrick's College, Goulburn. He studied Physics and Mathematics at university. In 1928 he won a 1851 Research Fellowship to study in the UK, and he gained a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Clare College, Cambridge in November 1931. Career EMI He moved to EMI in January 1932. J.D. McGee worked with the first technology of television, and invented the BBC's first television cameras with William Francis Tedham (1902–2000) at EMI's Central Research Laboratories in Middlesex. Tedham and McGee submitted their first patent on 12 May 1932. He worked at EMI with Hans Gerhard Lubszyński (31 Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Sheahan (politician)
William Francis Sheahan (3 September 1895 – 27 December 1975) also known as Bill Sheahan or Billy Sheahan, was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Early life Born in Tumut, New South Wales, the son of the publicans of the hotel at Jugiong, Sheahan attended schools in Tumut and St Patrick's College, Goulburn. Sheahan gained work as a clerk in the Crown Law Department in 1914 before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in 1916, serving in France and Flanders. Following World War I, Sheahan returned to the Crown Law Department, working there until 1930, when he received a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney and established a large criminal law practice. Called to the bar in 1930, Sheahan was made a Queen's Counsel in 1953. Political career Elected as the Labor Party member for the New South Wales Electoral district of Yass in 1941, Sheahan served in parliament until 1973 (from 1950 as the member for Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Lamaro
Joseph Lamaro (27 July 1895 – 22 May 1951) was an Australian politician. Born in Redfern to shopkeeper Deico Lamaro and Maria Giuseppa Taranto, Italian migrants, he attended St Joseph's School in Newtown and St Patrick's College in Goulburn before studying at the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1915 and a Bachelor of Law in 1922. He served in the Australian Imperial Force's 18th Battalion from 1916 to 1917 in the signals unit, seeing action at Ypres and the Somme. He was called to the Bar in 1922 and a member of the first Australian Board of Control from 1924 to 1927. In 1927 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Enmore, shifting to Petersham in 1930 and Leichhardt in 1932. Lamaro served as Minister of Justice from 1930 to 1931 and Attorney-General from 1931 to 1932. In 1934 he resigned his seat to contest the federal seat of Watson, but he was unsuccessful and returned to law as a solicitor. He work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Tully
John Moran Tully (1 December 1885 – 27 October 1966) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1946. Born at Mulgoa to railway officer Peter Tully and teacher Sarah Lovat, he attended St Patrick's College in Goulburn before becoming a public servant. He was an assistant at the public library from 1903 to 1908 and a draughtsman at the Registrar General's Department from 1908 to 1925 and 1932 to 1935. On 4 October 1916 he married Dorothy Kitching, with whom he had two sons. He had joined the Labor Party in 1913 and became president of the Chatswood branch. In 1925 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victor .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Around The Boree Log
''Around the Boree Log'' is a 1925 Australian silent film by Phil K. Walsh adapted from the poems of "John O'Brien" ( Patrick Joseph Hartigan). It tells stories of a priest's life around the 1870s in the Goulburn area.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 128. Unlike many Australian silent films, a copy of it survives today. Plot A priest reads from the book of poems by John O'Brien and recalls his earlier life in the country. He remembers travelling hawkers, his first school, a bishop inspection, childhood romance, and the marriage of a girl to another man. Cast *Molly O'Donohue (or O'Donohoe) as Laughing Mary Production The movie was shot on location in the New South Wales bush, mostly at the Wollondilly River area near Goulburn, in early 1925. The director had previously worked as an assistant on '' While the Billy Boils'' (1921) and would direct '' The Birth of White Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Joseph Hartigan
Monsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan (13 October 1878 – 27 December 1952) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet, writing under the name John O'Brien. Life Born at Yass, New South Wales Patrick Joseph Hartigan studied at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly and St Patrick's College, Goulburn. His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States. Hartigan died in Lewisham, an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1952. Works Hartigan wrote under the pseudonym "John O'Brien." His verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered to as a peripatetic curate in the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century. The refrain ''We'll all be rooned'' from his poem '' Said Hanrahan'' has entered colloquial Australian English as a jocular response to any prediction of dire consequences arising, particularly, from events ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Dictionary Of Biography
The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history. Initially published by Melbourne University Press in a series of twelve hard-copy volumes between 1966 and 2005, the dictionary has been published online since 2006 by the National Centre of Biography (NCB) at ANU, which has also published ''Obituaries Australia'' (OA) since 2010. History The ADB project began operating in 1957, although preparation work had been started in about 1954 at the Australian National University. An index was created that would be the basis of the ADB. Pat Wardle was involved in the work and, in time, she herself was included in the ADB. Staff are located at the National Centre of Biography in the History Department of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Since i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Stanislaus' College (Bathurst)
St Stanislaus' College is an Australian independent Roman Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys located in , in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, west of Sydney. Founded in 1867 and conducted since 1889 by the Congregation of the Mission's priests and brothers. The college is the oldest Catholic boys' boarding school in Australia, and caters for approximately 700 students from Year 7 to Year 12, including approximately 120 boarders. The early history of the college is intertwined with that of the short-lived St Charles' Seminary; both institutions shared the original towered section of building facing Brilliant Street until the latter closed in the late 1800s. St Stanislaus' College is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales (AISNSW), the International Boys’ Schools Coalition (IBSC), and is one of 13 full members of the Independent Sporti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coff's Harbour Advocate
''The Coff's Harbour Advocate'' was a weekly English language newspaper published from 1907 to 1972 in Coffs Harbour, Coff's Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. It was also known as ''The Advocate'', and ''The Coff's Harbour and Dorrigo Advocate.'' History The paper was established on 12 February 1907 by Elizabeth May Campbell, with the assistance of Robert Clyde Packer. The full text of the masthead read: ''The Coff's Harbour Advocate and Dorrigo, Orara, Coramba, Bucca Bucca, Woolgoogla, Glenreagh and Lower Clarence Advertiser''. The ''Suns press at Bellingen was initially used to print the paper. In 1972 the paper was renamed ''The Advocate'', published by the North Coast News. On 28 February 1984 the title reverted to ''The Coff's Harbour Advocate''. Digitisation ''The'' ''Coff's Harbour Advocate'' has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in New South Wales Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
