In the eyes of Imperial social engineers, the Famine orphans were young marriageable women who would bring a stabilizing influence to a rough masculine colonial society. Continue reading
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‘Built by the Irish People’: reflections on the 1798 memorial at Waverley and the Irish Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks
There are two significant memorials erected in Sydney in response to major events in Irish history: the 1798 Memorial at Waverley Cemetery built at the time of the centenary of the ’98 uprising, and the Australia Memorial to the Great Irish Famine unveiled in 1999. Continue reading
Famine Amnesia
By Frank O’Shea The word ‘amnesia’ was heard several times at the Famine round table in the Williamstown Town Hall on October 28. It was used to describe the way that Ireland seemed to have forgotten about the Great Famine of 1845-51 until it was brought to public discourse following the publication of Cecil Woodham-Smith’s … Continue reading
Melbourne – the world’s centre for Famine Commemoration in 2018
Remembering Famine Orphan Girls at Williamstown Continue reading
‘The Blind Poetess of Ulster’ song cycle by Jacqui Rutten
An Australian composes music for Famine-era poems at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Continue reading
The Forgotten Mayo Famine Girls Remembered
A statue and a book to tell the story of the girls who left Mayo in the Great Famine to come to Australia. Continue reading
Lessons to be Learned from our Irish Past
1852 brought forth a remarkably vindictive climax to Irish Orphan vilification Continue reading
Meeting An Old Classic
That Trench was one of those responsible for the Famine exodus cannot be entirely excused by the fact that his motives were good, and that he felt this was a better solution than the humiliation of the workhouse and the cruelty of road-making. Continue reading
2018 International Commemoration of Famine to be in Melbourne
International Famine Commemoration to be held in Williamstown. Continue reading
From Galway Workhouse Girls to Australian Pioneers.
Mary and Catherine Cunningham, along with the other Workhouse girls from Mountbellew, did not deserve to be forgotten.
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