How one Irish nun sparked a sectarian war in Australia

Sectarianism is a word often associated with the communal divide in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants. However, 100 years ago, it could also be applied to describe communal differences in Australia. When the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Cove in 1788, it brought not only convicts and their gaolers but also the baggage of religious hostility and ethnic antagonism that had existed for centuries between Irish Catholics and British Protestants...