Hope and healing: The poignant story of girls who were sent to Australia in 1848

Skibbereen Girls explores the poignant story of girls who were sent to Australia in 1848. Skibbereen Workhouse offered the most of anywhere outside Dublin. Each was provided with a bowl, a spoon and a petticoat, writes Marjorie Brennan.

“A terrible apathy, like that which oppresses a plague-driven people, seems to hang over the poor of Skibbereen ... One scanty funeral is fast followed by another and that by another.”