The Famine Orphan Girls sent to Australia
Update: 2024-07-09
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Between 1848 and 1850 over 4,000 girls were sent from Irish workhouses out to Australia, as part of a British scheme to help populate the colony. They were met with prejudice and hostility, described as ‘ignorant creatures' barely able 'to distinguishing the inside from the outside of a potato’. We trace the story of one, Eliza Fraiser.
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