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The series wrapped up just before Christmas, but as more people continue to tune in, the popularity for these remarkable stories continues to grow. The series examines prison records from Boston, New York, and Toronto from 1838 to 1918 and tells the story of how a disproportionate number of Irish women were imprisoned in North America. With narration popping up throughout from Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney, there is humour to be found in some episodes, such as the asthmatic woman who told a court she needed to drink, but there s also darker moments where you truly understand the desperation these women faced.
A podcast telling the stories of some of the thousands of young Irish women who emigrated to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries has become an unlikely hit, rising to No 2 in the Apple
The investigation was announced the same day that The Research Report on Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland was published.
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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.