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New Year’s Day [list of articles]

1 January 2023 · Leave a Comment

This list includes various articles, poems, stories, and other items (such as ephemera, especially postcards) about or relating to New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve, or to a New Year in a wider context.

Items regarding a New Year:
(Arranged in chronological order.)

Hieroglyphic for the New Year (Melbourne Punch, 31 December 1857)
Hieroglyphic for the New Year
Hieroglyphic for the New Year [31 December 1857]
An article, consisting of several tongue-in-cheek predictions, published in Melbourne Punch (Melbourne, Vic.), 31 December 1857.

A Christmas Welcome [poem, 21 December 1878]
A poem, by R. A., published in The Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW). This is a Christmas poem, which ends with a wish for a happy New Year.

Our Old and New Year [poem by Philip D. Lorimer, 30 December 1893]
A poem, by Philip Durham Lorimer, published in The Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW), 30 December 1893.

New Year Bells [poem by J. W., 17 January 1896]
A poem, by J. W., published in The Fitzroy City Press (Fitzroy, Vic.), 17 January 1896.

Trooper Campbell [poem by Henry Lawson, 1896]
A poem, by Henry Lawson, published in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (1896). The poem is set on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

An Australian New Year postcard
New Year greetings (postcard) (EC78)



An Australian New Year postcard
New Year greetings (postcard) (EC79)

New Year greetings [postcard, early 20th Century]
A postcard which incorporates a poem and some embedded boronia (addressed to Hilda Renouf). The postcard is undated, although it is estimated to have been published in the early 20th Century. (EC78)

New Year greetings [postcard, early 20th Century]
A postcard which incorporates a poem and some embedded boronia (addressed to Mac, from Will). The postcard is undated, although it is estimated to have been published in the early 20th Century. (EC79)

New Year’s night [short story by Henry Lawson, 1900]
A short story, by Henry Lawson, published in Over the Sliprails (1900).

New Year Thoughts [poem by Philip Durham Lorimer, 1901]
A poem, by Philip Durham Lorimer, published in Songs and Verses by Philip Durham Lorimer: An Australian Bush Poet (1901).

Sydney Harbour (New Year’s Eve, 1897) [poem by Mary E. Richmond, 1903]
A poem, by Mary E. Richmond, published in Poems (1903).

A meditation upon the glad new year — with poetic interludes [article and poetry by C. J. Dennis, 2 January 1907]
An article and poetry, by C. J. Dennis, published in The Gadfly (Adelaide, SA).

The New Year [poem by Agnes L. Storrie]
A poem, by Agnes L. Storrie, published in Poems (1909).

War in Broken Hill [the Battle of Broken Hill, 1 January 1915]
A newspaper report on an incident known as the Battle of Broken Hill. Two Muslims, flying the Turkish flag on a cart, attacked a party of Australian picnickers outside of Broken Hill, on New Year’s Day 1915. This article was published on the same day, in The Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW). The incident took place during the First World War (1914-1918) when Australia and the British Empire were at war with Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.

The New Year’s Day massacre [the Battle of Broken Hill, 2 January 1915]
Another newspaper report on the incident known as the Battle of Broken Hill (New Year’s Day 1915). This article was published on the following day, in The Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW).

1921 [poem, 1 January 1921]
A poem published in the “Sun Rays of the Week” column, in The Newcastle Sun (Newcastle, NSW).

Happy New Year! [poem, 1 January 1921]
A poem, by “Kodak”, published in Smith’s Weekly (Sydney, NSW).

When New Year’s Day Comes Round [poem by “Dryblower” Murphy, 1 January 1939]
A poem, by “Dryblower” Murphy, published in The Sunday Times (Perth, WA).

Updated 7 February 2023

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