destitute Irish women were sent from overcrowded workhouses in Ireland to Australia, where they became pioneers of a new colony. This maneuver, which lasted two years (1848-1850), was called the ...

In a number of unions, they were over sixty per cent of the pauper population: the number under 15-year-olds in the Cork workhouse increased from 3,337 in 1847 to 6,568 in 1850. The children's ...

Soldier, Edward Byrne, entered the South Union Workhouse in 1850, aged 26. He was described as being in good health despite having a “ragged look.” - Gerald Keogh, a 75-year-old widowed ...

After the famine, between 1848 and 1850, more than 4,000 girls and young women went from workhouses all over Ireland to Australia. For her book, The Kerry Girls: Emigration and the Earl Grey ...

Melbourne looked something like this when young Irish orphans arrived Between 1848 and 1850 more than 4,000 young Irish female orphans left workhouses and were transported to Australia.

Tubbercurry Union was formed in 1850, and they set about building a workhouse in the location where Connolly Park houses now stand. The workhouse opened in 1852 and was closed in 1923. The famine ...

Between 1848 and 1850 more than 4,000 young Irish female orphans left workhouses and were transported to Australia. It was part of what was known as the Earl Grey Scheme. He was secretary of state ...