大象传媒

Eadar 1787 agus 1868, chaidh c貌ig thar fhichead m矛le boireannach, faisg air leth dhiubh 脿 脠irinn, a chur air b貌rd luingean-tr脿illeachd, airson bh貌idse sia deug m矛le, m矛le, gu taobh eile an t-saoghail. Bha na mnathan seo a' ruighinn nan aonar no le clann 貌g, cuid dhiubh a bha gun p貌sadh agus cuid eile nam banntraich.

Bha iad gu bhith be貌, 's a' str矛, agus aig a' cheann thall a' dol a bh脿sachadh air talamh Astr脿ilia. Thairis air bliadhnaichean na Gorta M貌ra, chaidh ceithir m矛le d矛lleachdan 貌g a bh' ann an taighean-obrach nam bochd, a thaghadh agus a chur a-null thairis air na "Famine Bride Ships" gu na ce脿rnaidhean iomallach far an robh naoi uiread de dh' fhireannaich, 's a bh' ann de bhoireannaich. Tha an t-sreath seo a' rannsachadh cho deatamach 's a bha mnathan fuadaichte na h-脠ireann ann a bhith a' cruthachadh n脿isean 霉r Astr脿ilia.

From 1787-1868, 25,000 convict women - nearly half of them Irish - were forcibly transported in the dark holds of ships on a 16,000 mile journey to the other side of the world. Arriving alone or with small children, these single, married and widowed women, lived, loved, toiled and died under Australian skies.

In the two-year period of the Great Famine, over 4,000 young orphan girls - inmates of the overcrowded Irish workhouses - were carefully selected and shipped on what became known as the "Famine Bride Ships" to the colonies in the outback, where men outnumbered women by nine to one. This series explores the historical importance of Irish convict women and young orphan girls in building the modern Australian nation.