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Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 10.24 EST The millions of Irish girls and women who emigrated to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries tend to be remembered, if at all, as domestic servants, cooks, wives and mothers. A reputation for diligence and rectitude cast them as the unsung heroes of a diaspora that went on to conquer US business and politics. But it turns out there is an untold chapter in the Irish emigrant experience, because many girls and women were in fact sex workers, thieves and drunkards, even killers, and they filled the prisons of Boston, New York and Toronto.