About POTATO FAMINE ORPHANS
Famine, despair… but hope. Trapped in an overcrowded and brutal workhouse during the Irish famine, facing starvation and almost certain death, a number of orphan teenage girls were
offered an opportunity to escape to the Australian colonies. The passage by sailing ship would not be easy, and they would encounter resistance and prejudice in the colonies. Their story has been largely unreported, until now…
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