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Find your local expert today at H.r Dept.co. UK. When it comes to the history of the children of the great hunger, the plight of thousands of orphans shipped to Australia dominates the narrative.

In the later years of the great famine, Henry George Gray, the British Secretary of State for the

colonies devised a scheme that shipped over 4,100 female

orphans from Irish workhouses to Australia.

There has been intense debate about the motives behind this scheme.

While death rates in Irish workhouses were shocking,

the plight of these young women in Australia

left a lot to be desired.

Many were married off to much older men. Nevertheless, the Earl Grey scheme, named after its architect, is

widely remembered in both Ireland and Australia. Work has been done to trace the descendants of the thousands of orphans, while

memorials have been erected in both countries. However, what's often overlooked is the

plight of the orphans who were not selected for this scheme.

Because those shipped to Australia were only a tiny minority of those orphaned by the great hunger.

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