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Notes
John Wright author of Undaunted: The Irish in Australia and Dr Ruan O’Donnell of the University of Limerick on early settlers in Australia. Dr. Gerard Moran of NUI Maynooth also talked about the 4,000 workhouse girls who left Ireland between 1848 and 1850 under the Earl Grey Scheme.