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War Refugees in Ireland: Long and Lasting Relations

12/01/2019

War Refugees in Ireland: Long and Lasting Relations Operation Shamrock was the name of an operation managed by the Irish Red Cross as a scheme to bring orphaned children from mainland Europe to Ireland in the aftermath of WW2. It involved about 500 children between 5 and 14 years who stayed for three years. The project was started by the Save the German Children Society (SGCS) founded in 1945 at a meeting in the Shelbourne Hall, Dublin, to find…

From Slavery to Freedom: Frederick Douglass in Ireland

11/20/2019

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From Slavery to Freedom: Frederick Douglass in Ireland He was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1818-1895) in Cordova, Maryland, USA. After escaping from slavery in Maryland he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and his incisive antislavery writings. Described as tall and handsome in his late twenties, just how late he didn’t know. Slavery had robbed him of knowledge about the exact circumstances of…