Some of the rebels from the 1837 rebellion in Canada were also sent to Van Diemen's Land, if they weren't lucky enough to escape to the US. One, I think, eventually rose a position of some prominence in Australia. I'll have to go look at that historical plaque again.

I think there is a song in the Helen Creighton collection, from Nova Scotia, about Van Diemen's Land although I am not aware that prisoners from NS were sent there.

Associated reading, The Fatal Shore.

As for these songs stirring up old quarrels, listen to The House of Orange, by Stan Rogers, for a different view. I would have thought that the EU would have put an end to this kind of nationalism in Europe nowadays. Even the English are taking their laws from Brussels.