Good character: female Workhouse emigration to Australia
            
        
            
        
        
        
            Thousands of single female "orphans" emigrated to Australia from Famine-ravaged Ireland in the late 1840s. But who were those women, and what were their lives like when they got there? Perry McIntyre explains
        
        
        
        
            
                History
                 • 24 Mar 21