I wish there was some way of telling the 4,114 so-called famine orphans dismissed as “workhouse scrapings” when they were first sent to Australia that the tide has truly turned.
It was extraordinary to hear Australian ambassador Chantelle Taylor speaking in Irish to honour these girls...
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Clodagh Finn: Bringing home something of the famine orphans who shaped Australia
Between 1848 and 1850, thousands of young Irish girls were sent to struggling colonies in Australia