Name: Queensland Irish Association
Time: 1951 - TBA
Epoch: Late 20th Century
Category: Cultural Community of Education
Institution Category: Informing
Institution Group: Public Community Education
Coordinates: -27.4696666666667, 153.027221666667
Street Address: Queensland Irish Association, Elizabeth Street
Suburb: Brisbane City (CBD)
Sector: Independent \'Community\'
Local Study Area: Spring Hill-CBD-Fortitude Valley-New Farm (Inner City)
Study Stage: MBNH Stage 9 Local Study Areas
The Queensland Irish Association was established on 23 March 1898 at a meeting of over 150 members of Brisbane’s Irish community. The gathering was dominated by influential professional and business men, an indication that, by the 1890s, Brisbane’s middle and upper classes contained a substantial Irish component that was predominantly Catholic.
Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Brisbane River
Geographic Description 3: Flood Plains (Major); High River Banks (still floods); Ridgeline (Slopes off Wickham Tce)
Rodney Sullivan, The Queensland Irish Association: Origins and consolidation, 1898-1908, Queensland History Journal, Vol. 22, No. 5, May 2014: 401-415.
Tara House (Queensland Irish Association) – History in Pictures. Archive: State Library of Queensland.
