Some of Bridget’s descendants in NSW Continue reading
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English exam board removes works of Irish writers to promote diversity
Heaney’s poem ‘Punishment’ will also be removed from the OCR’s GCSE poetry anthology from September 2022. GCSEs are the basic level of qualification in British education, while A-levels are taken by secondary school students aged between 16 and 18. Continue reading
Fraud in Ireland
Former footballer gives a riveting account of the workings of the fraud squad, from an insider’s perspective. Continue reading
Bridget Hopkins c1833-1915: A Galway girl goes to Bathurst and Bourke
A brilliant multi-layered Irish orphan story. Continue reading
Julia Brien, A Fiery Orphan from Kilkenny
The tumultuous life and times of Julia Brien. Continue reading
Jane Feeney and DNA
DNA testing brings together many generations later cousins descended from a Famine orphan Jane Feeney. Continue reading
Eliza McCready: A ‘Belfast Girl’ sent to Moreton Bay
She wasn’t simply an obscure name on a family tree. Her name appeared in the archives, documents from which I could determine meaning. Continue reading
About my Belfast Girls
Jaki McCarrick talks about the writing, at ‘white heat’, of her play, ‘Belfast Girls’. Continue reading
Elizabeth Sharkey, Domestic Abuse Refuser
The seventh in Tinteán‘s Famine Orphan Girls Series by a descendant, Chrissy Fletcher. Elizabeth Sharkey is my grandmother’s grandmother, through an all-female line. I like to imagine this line as a fine gold thread coming from my heart and connecting me from mother to mother, spanning the oceans and the centuries back to a … Continue reading
Searching for Bridget
An attempt to piece together the history of the elusive Famine Orphan, Bridget Gallagher of Donegal. Continue reading
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