Background
BRADY, Edwin James was born in 1869 in Carcoar, New South Wales Irish parentage. Last lineal descendant of Hugh Brady, first Protestant Bishop of Meath. Grandfather emigrated to Australia in the fifties.
BRADY, Edwin James was born in 1869 in Carcoar, New South Wales Irish parentage. Last lineal descendant of Hugh Brady, first Protestant Bishop of Meath. Grandfather emigrated to Australia in the fifties.
He was educated at the University of Sydney and in Washington, D. C.
He then entered journalism, becoming the editor of the Australian Workman in 1892. In 1901 he became owner of the short-lived newspaper Grip, and in 1904 editor of the Australian Worker. His best-known book of poems, The King's Caravan (1912), brought him widespread recognition as a vigorous singer of Australian themes.
The King's Caravan
The Way of Many Rivers
The Earthen Floor
River Rovers
Bells and Hobbles
Australia Unlimited
The House of the Winds
The Land of the Sun
Wardens of the Seas
Two Frontiers
Field sports.