'Rags and boughs' - Daughters of the Irish Great Hunger in Australia

Casey, A

'Rags and boughs' - Daughters of the Irish Great Hunger in Australia

Casey, A

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Publisher:: Wordwell Ltd
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: History Ireland, 2022, 30, (1), pp. 26-28
Issue Date:: 2022-01-31

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dc.contributor.author	Casey, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6146-2722
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-17T08:26:06Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-20
dc.date.available	2023-01-17T08:26:06Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-31
dc.identifier.citation	History Ireland, 2022, 30, (1), pp. 26-28
dc.identifier.issn	0791-8224
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/165081
dc.description.abstract	On 16 December 1848, fifteen-year-old Catherine McNeill from Roscommon was one of 234 girls to board the Digby, the fifth ship of the Earl Grey scheme to ferry its live cargo of Irish famine orphan girls to Australia at the height of the Irish Great Hunger. Departing one of Ireland’s worst-hit counties – which would lose one third of its people during the five-year national disaster – the journey would condemn at least three generations of Catherine’s family to destitution and cyclical incarceration in their new country.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Wordwell Ltd
dc.relation.ispartof	History Ireland
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dc.subject	2103 Historical Studies
dc.title	'Rags and boughs' - Daughters of the Irish Great Hunger in Australia
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Abstract:

On 16 December 1848, fifteen-year-old Catherine McNeill from Roscommon was one of 234 girls to board the Digby, the fifth ship of the Earl Grey scheme to ferry its live cargo of Irish famine orphan girls to Australia at the height of the Irish Great Hunger. Departing one of Ireland’s worst-hit counties – which would lose one third of its people during the five-year national disaster – the journey would condemn at least three generations of Catherine’s family to destitution and cyclical incarceration in their new country.

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