For some months in 2019-20, Tinteán has been featuring an article on one of the so-called Earl Grey girls. These were young women, mostly orphans, from the workhouses where they had been put during the early days of the Great Famine. They are remembered in particular at a memorial in the Hyde Park barracks in … Continue reading
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Birds of Passage and Orphan Girls
A small group of Irish Famine girls, whose average age was sixteen, is the subject of this lyrical and captivating story by Evelyn Conlon. Continue reading
Famine Commemoration
The monument was inspired by the arrival in Australia of over 4,000 single young women, most of whom were teenaged orphans. Continue reading