Sir,—Anne Casey (‘“Rags and boughs”—daughters of the Great Hunger in Australia’, HI 30.1, Jan./Feb. 2022) bases her criticisms of the Earl Grey famine orphan scheme, under which girls were sent from Irish workhouses to the Australian colonies, on the later experiences of one of these women and her three Australian-born children. Catherine McNeill, a fifteen-year-old ... Read more
