One Listener’s Story – A Letter from Australia to Ireland (#208)

So many people left Ireland for Australia in the early to late 1800s. Some were sent for "seven long years transportation" while others went of their own accord to seek a better life. Here we have just one story connecting so many threads between Australia and a County in Ireland.

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One Listener’s Story – A Letter from Australia to Ireland (#208)

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Episode Summary:

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of the Letter from Ireland Show. In this episode of the Letter from Ireland Show Carina and Mike chat about many useful aspects of discovering more about your Irish family history – all wrapped inside just one Australian reader’s story – and her links back to one county in Ireland.

The Letter from Ireland Show is a weekly podcast that goes out each Thursday from our cottage in County Cork. Tune in to this episode – and dive straight in to a bit of Irish caint, ceóil agus craic (conversation, music and craic!).

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