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Potato Famine Orphans

Potato Famine Orphans

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Historical FiguresGeneral EducationIrish History

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ISBN10: 1923298666
ISBN13: 9781923298668
Publisher: Aurora House
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At the height of the Irish Potato Famine, as a million people starved or worked to death around them, a group of teenage orphan girls were offered an opportunity to escape to a new and better life in the Australian colonies. But joy at their salvation from the workhouses was tempered by fear of leaving their homeland to travel for months to an unknown land half the world away. And even once they arrived, their youth, gender, ancestry and religion all served as fuel to the fires of discrimination from vicious newspapers and religious bigots.

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