Ballarat community will commemorate this bloody day in Australian history by remembering the events surrounding the Eureka Stockade, which profoundly shaped Australian democracy.
The Munster Arms Hotel in Bakery Hill is located close to the site of the ‘Monster Meeting’ of 29 November, 1854, where more than 10,000 miners gathered to push for political and social reform and protest the prohibitive cost of the miner’s license, just days before the Eureka Stockade took place.
It seems fitting that Anne Hanrahan, the great, great granddaughter of Michael Hanrahan — one the one of the miners at the Monster Meetings and Captain of the Pikeman — now operates the Munster Arms Hotel.
Today, Anne is looking forward to celebrating the legacy of her great, great grandfather with the 170th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, which will take place in December this year.
“I feel honoured to be operating a business in the area where history took place and to be the descendant of a man who stood up to injustice and what he believed in, who played a part in what was controversially acknowledged as the birth of democracy in this country,” Anne says.