61,000 Young Women! – Assisted Emigration from Irish Poor Law Unions to the North American Colonies in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
By: Linda Fitzgibbon Ph.D. On June 28, 1848, the Galway Poor Law Union Minute Book states: “a pauper named Jane Kelly had stolen from the garden of a person adjoining the temporary workhouse, 10 heads of cabbage. The Board directed that Jane Kelly be transmitted to...Mary Anne Sadlier
“The greatest Irishwoman that ever crossed the Atlantic” – Archbishop John Hughes By: Ed O’Shaughnessy Much has been written about the life and influence of the authoress Mary Anne Saddlier (1820-1903), best remembered for her prolific writing about the...