19th Century Irish Emigrants Ballinasloe, Galway, Ireland


Illustration after the painting by Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) from a special edition history of England published in 1903. Over 2 million emigrated to America 7 Australia in the years 1845-55 & another 750,000 to the UK.


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