Potato Famine Orphans: Workhouse Girls Escape and Find New Life in the Colonies

Famine, despair... but hope.

Trapped in an over-crowded 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...