The Irish Famine orphans were young women who came to Australia from Irish workhouses at the height of the Great Famine. Their lives are central to the Famine Memorial at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, an inspiration to its artists Hossein and Angela Valamanesh and the pride and joy of their Australian descendants.
We hope they might represent, in a symbolic way, everyone who stayed for a while at Hyde Park Barracks during the nineteenth century.
Bridget Gaffney and Nathaniel Lawrence
Mary Ann McMaster
Anastasia Mary Brophy
Mary Kenny
Rose Sherry
Honorah Haydon
Ellen McGuire
Honorah Shea
Bridget Gaffney
Bridget Hartigan
Hannah Rafferty
Frances Patterson
Catherine Kean/Featherstone
Catherine Grady
Bridget Hartigan
Margaret Frawley
Johanna Kelly
Mary Casserly/Cassidy
Bridget Hartigan and family (4 Gen)
Bridget Flood
Maria Maher/Kennedy and Grandchild
Maria McDermott
Margaret Driscoll
Eliza McDermott
Mary Healy and Husband
Johanna Kelly front row 2nd left
Catherine Moriarty and Family
Johanna Kelly sitting holding baby
