An exciting lecture on a Cashel Bigamist from the early 1800’s will take place in Cashel Library on Thursday 28th August @ 2.30pm. This illustrated presentation will examine key themes arising from research into Irish convicts transported to New South Wales in the early 19th century. Australian-based Dr Damian John Gleeson, has been visiting Tipperary since the early 1980s and is descendant of the Gleeson (erenagh), O’Brien and Collins families of Errinagh, Silvermines. As a qualified genealogist and historian, Damian’s works include An Enduring Flame: St Patrick’s Mortlake, 1885-2020: An Irish-Australian Working-Class Community (Mortlake, NSW, 2021), winner of the City of Canada Bay Heritage Award in 2021, and The Rock of St George: celebrating the 125th anniversary of the first St Joseph's Church/School, Rockdale (Rockdale City, NSW, 2017), winner of the Ron Rathbone Local History Prize, Bayside Council, 2017.