https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog daily 0.75 2025-05-21 https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/about-this-blog monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/681e1675-2b5f-4673-a316-dfd8e14452ff/x293.jpg Blog posts - ABOUT THIS BLOG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/379c1a31-4ca1-49d9-a548-f32910c3b04e/20210213_121537.jpg Blog posts - ABOUT THIS BLOG Vince and Lea with the very first draft. [Photo by Vince’s niece Kathy Sutton] https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/recordings-of-vince-talking monthly 0.5 2024-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/12a60795-bd23-4cec-96db-b4786b78e50e/vince+on+phone+small+smile_crop+1.jpg Blog posts - RECORDINGS OF VINCE talking [Photo by Lea McInerney] https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/history-told-lightly monthly 0.5 2024-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/86c826a8-9633-4657-a9ae-c0e5beaa7e19/1934%2C+1936.jpg Blog posts - HISTORY TOLD LIGHTLY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/864170e6-7691-499c-b7df-6b4cc80496b3/Vin_Winnie_Mother.jpg Blog posts - HISTORY TOLD LIGHTLY Vince with his mum, Katie, and sister, Josie, probably taken near their Adelaide school, in the 1940s. This is the era when Vince’s mum had to have an exemption certificate to be able to work and live in Adelaide. [Copley family collection] https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/papa-joe-and-grandfather-barney monthly 0.5 2024-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/411db1cf-d2bb-410e-b1ab-3701018eed58/royal+commission+excerpts.jpg Blog posts - PAPA JOE & GRANDFATHER BARNEY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/ae03e830-e4f3-4b60-ae8d-32351280c560/papa+joe+and+grandma+maisie+edwards.jpg Blog posts - PAPA JOE & GRANDFATHER BARNEY Vince’s mum’s parents, Grandma Maisie May and Papa Joe Edwards. 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[Copley family collection] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/681d0353-08e2-4268-8054-3625353c3921/barney%27s+letter+1.jpg Blog posts - PAPA JOE & GRANDFATHER BARNEY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/a-revelation-from-the-archives monthly 0.5 2024-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/9a9e41f6-90bc-43c1-9a84-cdadb2cab673/1939_2.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES - Make it stand out Vince is two years old, his dad Fred has recently died from tuberculosis, and his mum Katie has five children to raise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/769a60f3-4dc4-428a-b7bd-70d267e255ae/1934.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES - Make it stand out Two years before Vince is born. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/6e03097e-bae4-4100-a910-15904b872a76/1939_1.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/aeb41ef4-e51f-46dd-ae1d-a361d9a10d33/katie+on+her+own.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES - Make it stand out Vince’s mum Katie [Copley family collection] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/99687a4a-28e7-4d39-9d04-b9d910b772a9/1911.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES - Make it stand out Vince’s parents, Fred Warrior and Katie Edwards, are four years old and living at Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/884117d4-b05d-4eec-b895-979705345d4c/katie%27s+exemption+certificate.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/940f8786-10ee-4e20-8eef-79c2a83a09db/1923.jpg Blog posts - A REVELATION FROM THE ARCHIVES - Make it stand out Fred and Katie are sixteen years old. https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/we-were-living-it monthly 0.5 2024-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/cf18d662-db3c-4cf8-a259-20e26eeb2efc/map+hayman+is.jpg Blog posts - ‘WE WERE LIVING IT’ - Make it stand out Map showing Hayman Island in the Whitsundays off the Queensland coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/7678bad1-50c3-4097-9a5b-d1014bbffcbc/Vin_Working+%281958%29.jpg Blog posts - ‘WE WERE LIVING IT’ - A family photo of Vince in 1958, working on a farm in Curramulka. He was also into his second year as captain-coach of the Curramulka A grade football team. This was the same year that politicians in Adelaide were finally repealing the South Australian consorting laws that affected Aboriginal people. [Copley family collection] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/41a0b4e1-1490-4d88-a1cd-e9e5bd3d291b/1953.jpg Blog posts - ‘WE WERE LIVING IT’ https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/vinces-friend-laurie monthly 0.5 2024-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/3d5e687e-9f53-4b47-9c9b-6c5db2adb28d/anne+and+lea.jpg Blog posts - VINCE’S FRIEND LAURIE - Make it stand out With Anne Faris in Adelaide in October 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/bd8e423e-eb17-45da-baf5-69ecd44fc1b2/st+francis+house+boys+to+school.jpg Blog posts - VINCE’S FRIEND LAURIE Laurie, Vince and some of the other St Francis House boys beside the home on their way to school. Laurie is on the far left, then Desi Price, Kenny Hampton, Richie Bray (Laurie’s brother), Malcolm Cooper, Gordon Briscoe, Ron Tilmouth, Vince, Gerry Hill and Wilf Huddleston. [Copley family collection and the P. McD. Smith MBE and St Francis House Collection www.stfrancishouse.com.au] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/92d9d382-34d9-47ee-b87b-a0fa50645826/St+Francis+House+memorial+stone.JPG Blog posts - VINCE’S FRIEND LAURIE - Make it stand out Vince next to the St Francis House memorial stone, at Glanville Hall, now a function centre. [Copley family collection] https://www.leamcinerney.au/blog/filling-in-gaps monthly 0.5 2024-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/2c0e8079-0d93-4d8e-b80e-5426859d2d05/fred+warrior+%26+pt+pearce+footy+team.jpg Blog posts - FILLING IN GAPS - Make it stand out Vince’s dad Fred Warrior, in the Point Pearce football team in the 1920s. 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I stuck it on the wall next to my computer and often glanced at it as I transcribed Vince’s stories from my audio recorder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631edf2ff996ed25679958ff/bf1a6623-0502-40d4-91d7-f23901779a15/vince+and+aunty+hilda+and+aunty+doris.jpg Blog posts - ROUND THE PIANO - Make it stand out Vince with his Auntie Hilda Wilson (left) and Auntie Doris Graham (right). 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