Editing Van Diemen's Land (section)

== Popular culture ==

=== Film ===
* The 2008 film ''[[The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce]]'' tells the true story of [[Alexander Pearce]] through his final confession to fellow Irishman and colonial priest Philip Conolly. The film was nominated for a Rose d'Or, an [[Irish Film and Television Award]], an [[Australian Film Institute Award]] and won an [[IF Award]] in 2009.
* The 2009 film ''[[Van Diemen's Land (film)|Van Diemen's Land]]'' follows the story of the infamous Irish convict Alexander Pearce and his escape with seven other convicts.
* The 2011 Australian drama film ''[[The Hunter (2011 Australian film)|The Hunter]],'' about a shadowy corporation that sends a mercenary to [[Tasmania]] to track down a [[thylacine]], a supposedly extinct animal whose genetic code holds the secret to a dangerous weapon.
* The 2013 ABC telemovie ''[[The Outlaw Michael Howe]]'' is set in Van Diemen's Land and tells the story of bushranger [[Michael Howe (bushranger)|Michael Howe]]'s convict-led rebellion.
* The 2018 film ''[[Black '47 (film)|Black '47]]'' directed by [[Lance Daly]] and set in Ireland during the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Irish Famine]] depicts a judgement imposed on a farmer for theft by a judge in the province of [[Connemara]], which includes six months of hard labour and subsequent penal transportation to Van Diemen's Land.
* The 2018 film'' [[The Nightingale (2018 film)|The Nightingale]]'' is set in Van Diemen's Land in 1825 and depicts a female Irish convict taking revenge for the murder of her family by the [[colonial forces of Australia]] as the [[Black War]] breaks out.
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=== Music ===
* [[U2]] recorded the song "Van Diemen's Land" for their 1988 album ''[[Rattle and Hum]]'', with lyrics expressing the plight of a man facing transportation.<ref>{{cite web |title=U2 &gt; Discography &gt; Lyrics &gt; Van Diemen's Land |url=https://www.u2.com/music/lyrics/160 |website=U2.com |access-date=16 July 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* Tom Russell sets Van Diemen's Land as the ship's destination in his song "Isaac Lewis" on the album "Modern Art".
* In the traditional [[Irish traditional music|Irish folk song]] "[[The Black Velvet Band]]", the protagonist is found guilty of stealing a watch and is sent to Van Diemen's Land as punishment.
* The song "Van Diemen's Land" in the album titled "Parcel of Rogues" with vocals by [[Barbara Dickson]] is about an Irish man caught for poaching and transported to Van Diemen's Land and the hardships he has living there.
* Russell Morris released an album titled "[[Van Diemen's Land (album)|Van Diemen's Land]]" in Australia in 2014.  The title track describes the voyage of a convict being transported to Van Diemen's Land and was released with a video shot in Tasmania.
* The [[Roud Folk Song Index]] includes two different English [[transportation ballads]] with the title [[Van Diemen's Land (folk song)|Van Diemen's Land]], both about a poacher sentenced to transportation to the penal colony.
* The album "Fred Holstein: A Collection" includes [[Fred Holstein]]'s version of the classic folk song "Maggie May" ([[Maggie May (folk song)]], which is different from Rod Stewart's [[Maggie May]]). In his version, the prostitute and thief Maggie May is transported to "Van Diemen's cruel shore."
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*[[Ewan MacColl|Ewan McColl]] recorded the transportation song "Van Diemen's Land," releasing it on the Riverside Records long-playing album "Scots Streets Songs," and also released the song as a 45-rpm single. 
* ''The Fields Of Athenrye'': Depicting a young girl saying goodbye to her partner as he's being transported to Van Diemen's land for stealing "Trevelyan's corn"

=== Literature ===
[[File:Black-white photograph of Emily Dickinson2.png|upright|thumb|right|[[Emily Dickinson]]'s poem "If you were coming in the fall" makes a reference to Van Diemen's land.]]
* [[Emily Dickinson]]'s 1890 poem, "If you were coming in the fall" makes reference to Van Diemen's land with the line "Subtracting, til my fingers dropped, Into Van Dieman's Land.".
* The novel, ''[[The Broad Arrow|The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer]]'' (published in 1859 in London and in 1860 in Hobart) was written in the penal colony, under the pen name [[Oliné Keese]].<ref name=dpac>[http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/cdd/information_and_resources/significant_tasmanian_women/significant_tasmanian_women_-_research_listing/caroline_woolmer_leaky Caroline Woolmer Leaky] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325091749/http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/cdd/information_and_resources/significant_tasmanian_women/significant_tasmanian_women_-_research_listing/caroline_woolmer_leaky |date=25 March 2012 }}, ''Index of Significant Tasmanian Women'', Department of Premier and Cabinet, Government of Tasmania.</ref>
* Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature [[Patrick White]]'s novel ''[[A Fringe of Leaves]]'' places much of the novel's beginnings in Van Diemen's Land.
* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of [[Richard Flanagan]]'s novels ''[[Gould's Book of Fish|Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish]]'' (2002) and ''Wanting'' (2008).
* [[Brendan Whiting]]'s book ''Victims of Tyranny'', gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer [[William Paterson (explorer)|Colonel William Paterson]].
* In [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s novel ''[[Blood Meridian]]'', one of the characters in the [[Glanton Gang]] of scalpers in 1850s [[Mexico]] is a "Vandiemenlander" named Bathcat. Born in [[Wales]] he later went to Australia to hunt aborigines, and eventually came to Mexico, where he uses those skills on the [[Apache]]s.
* From ''The Potato Factory'' by [[Bryce Courtenay]] (1995), "... subtracting till my fingers dropped; into Van Diemen's Land." This is a quote from Emily Dickinson's Poem "If You Were Coming in the Fall". Two of the main characters in Cortenay's novel are transported Van Diemen's Land as convicts and another travels there, where around half of the novel takes place.
* In the novel ''The Convicts'' by [[Iain Lawrence]], young Tom Tin is sent to Van Diemen's Land on charges of murder.
* In the novel ''The Terror'' by [[Dan Simmons]] (2007). In this novel about the ill-fated exploration by {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} and {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}} to discover the [[Northwest Passage]]. The ships left England in May 1846 and were never heard from again, although since then much has been discovered about the fate of the 129 officers and crew. References are made to Van Diemen's Land during the chapters devoted to [[Francis Crozier]].
* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel ''[[English Passengers]]'' by [[Matthew Kneale]] (2000), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden. The story runs parallel with the narrative of a young Tasmanian who tells the struggle of the indigenous population and the desperate battle against the invading British colonists.
* [[Christopher Koch]]'s novel ''[[Out of Ireland]]'' (1999) describes life as a convict in Van Diemen's Land.
* Marcus Clarke used historical events as the basis for his fictional ''[[For the Term of his Natural Life]]'' (1870), the story of a gentleman, falsely convicted of murder, who is transported to Van Diemen's Land.
* [[Julian Stockwin]]'s [[nautical fiction]] series, ''The Kydd Series'', includes the book ''Command'' (2006) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, [[Philip Gidley King]], for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.
* "The Exiles" by [[Christina Baker Kline]] (2020) tells the story of "transportation" to Van Dieman's Land and the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of three women at the centre of the story.

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