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    'Just Saying'

    'Just Saying'

    Just Saying is a short film that was released just over a month ago. You can find it on YouTube and you’ll see it’s had over 320,000 views since it was uploaded on December 27th. It’s quite poignant and quintessentially “Dublin”. It follows a young man as he walks the streets of Dublin at night. It’s been described as an “emigration film”, but it’s also full of hope… The star of the piece is an actor called Emmet Kirwan. And in it, he strolls around the streets of Dublin, pondering the move he is about to make: moving away from ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/programmes/2013/0129/365079-tuesday-january-29th-2013/?clipid=986585
    Blighted Nation Episode Three features

    Blighted Nation Episode Three features

    Coffin Ship:   Those who could, left Ireland. The cheapest way to get across the Atlantic was on what would become known as coffin ships. Colette Kinsella spoke to historian, William Henry about the conditions people had to endure on board. Famine Memories collected by Irish Folklore Commission in 1945:     We feature a selection of emigration memories as told to the Irish Folklore Commission in 1945. These stories were handed down by parents and grandparents who lived through the famine. Arriving in Canada:   The majority of emigrants who headed for Canada intended to go onto the States. Many of the people coming ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/blighted-nation/programmes/2013/0304/372034-episode-3/?clipid=1043061
    Early Irish Emigrants to Australia

    Early Irish Emigrants to Australia

    Our long history of migration to Australia began in 1788 when the first convict ships landed in Botany Bay. 25,000 Irish men and women arrived as convicts but others went voluntarily, like the 4,000 workhouse girls who left between 1848 and 1850 under the Earl Grey Scheme. Men out numbered women by 8 to one in Australia at that time – so many of these girls were basically a 19th century version of mail order brides. Historian, Dr. Gerard Moran, of NUI Maynooth spoke to Susan Dennehy about the Orphan Emigrant Scheme. In the bleakest of settings, they joined the ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0428/385889-the-history-show-sunday-28-april-2013/?clipid=1065336

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