The Man from Ironbark

The Man from Ironbark

"The Man From Ironbark" is a famous poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in "The Bulletin" on 1892-12-17. The poem relates the experiences of a naïve bushman from the Australian Outback, who reacts badly to a practical joke sprung on him by a mischievous barber in Sydney. While making his displeasure known,

"A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go."
The barber confessed that he was playing a joke, and the bushman, unconvinced, returned to Ironbark.

Ironbark was the earlier name for Stuart Town, a town in the Central West region of New South Wales. [cite web|url=http://www.walkabout.com.au/locations/NSWStuartTown.shtml|title=Stuart Town|work=Walkabout|publisher=Fairfax Digital|accessdate=2008-09-30]

In 2004, a representative of The Wilderness Society posed as "The Ghost of the Man from Ironbark", a reference to the poem, to campaign for the protection of the remaining Ironbark woodlands in New South Wales and Queensland [http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/ironbark Ghost of Man from Ironbark] ] .

External links

* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/ironbark.html "The Man from Ironbark"] – full text of the poem
* [http://freeread.com.au/ebooks/e00073.txt "The Man from Ironbark" - full text on Freeread]

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