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4000 adolescent female orphans emigrated from Irish workhouses to the Australian colonies, arriving at Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide between 1...

The Irish Famine Memorial in Dublin, also known as the Famine Memorial or the Great Famine Memorial, is located along the Custom House Quay in Dublin, Ireland. The memorial was unveiled in 1997 and is dedicated to the memory of those who suffered and died during the Great Famine (1845-1852), a devastating period in Irish history marked by widespread crop failures, starvation, and mass emigration.

Presentation Sister Elizabeth Maxwell   The text below the famine cross museum piece reads as follows: 'Made from the Wood of a Hinged C...

'Irish immigrant Florence Burke has lived in Massachusetts for more than a decade but he's still a tenant farmer and his family lives in near-pove...