They say a picture paints a thousand words yet looking at the photo of the Australian cricket team for the second test of the 1936 Ashes you would never tell there was a deep tension between the captain Don Bradman and the players sitting either side of him, Stan McCabe and Jack Fingleton. This notion was quite prevalent during the Great War when the voices of a few were made to count for the many and the feeling lingered into the 1930s. A distrust of Irish Catholics seeped into the team and yet the very fact that five of the players had Irish heritage indicated how much the Irish were willing to integrate and play a part in Australian society.
Author: Samuel Kingston
Published at: 2025-11-19 22:59:22
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