RESOURCE: "Pushing Up Shamrocks" is a reference book on this subject (Irish in Queensland) that was published in 1998 by David O'Lorcain of Burpengary, Queensland. It contains some background history, but best of all it contains an alphabetical index to 6,000 Irish buried in Queensland. Information was taken from contributions by Queensland family members (with their names and addresses provided!), Pioneer Registers, burial registers and cemetery inscriptions. I personally know of one person who was able to immediately identify three of his ancestors from gravestone inscriptions and a family sheet detailed in this book and subsequently contacted the submitter. He even found out some interesting information about the deceased's occupations! Good resource for researchers who know that their Irish lived and died in Queensland. This is a very popular book, perhaps you can find a genealogy library copy. Jean