Rosanna Flemming, an Irish Famine Orphan, had serious medical and psychological issues. It is not known what triggered them. We know that she lost at least two children in infancy, but perhaps her earlier experiences in Ireland played a part…. Continue reading
Ten verbal snapshots of the Irish in Coburg over the last 180 years… Continue reading
How did an anti-Mason Protestant Abolitionist, temperance advocate and vegetarian from Vermont (USA) become a first hand witness of the Great Famine and a practical advocate for famine relief? Continue reading
Thousands of Irish left the country in ships carrying with them all they owned, including the Irish language Continue reading
Ireland is set to recognize the extraordinary charity shown to its people by a Native American tribe during the country’s 19th-century famine. Continue reading
The aim, once they have collated all the descendants, is to reconnect them with their ancestors in Ireland. Continue reading
Ambassador Breandán took an inclusive and humanist approach, linking the sufferings of the victims of the Irish Famine with those of people displaced today. Continue reading
You get to love too his elegant turn of phrase, understatement providing more eloquence than a rattle of words. Continue reading
Arrival of Irish Famine Orphan Girls in Melbourne
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I don’t expect to read much better for a long time.
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