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IFHS Talk: The Kerry Girls: Emigration & the Earl Grey Scheme

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19 May 2026 @ 19:30 – 20:30
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This talk will be presented by Kay Caball. Kay is a native of Listowel, Co. Kerry. She studied Genealogy at the University of Limerick and is a Council Member of the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society.
She researches and blogs through MyKerryAncestors.com. Kay’s publications include The Kerry Girls: Emigration & the Earl Grey Scheme (2014), Finding Your Ancestors in Kerry (2015) and The Fall of the Fitzmaurices: The Demise of Kerry’s first Family (2020).

As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, Kay tells the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry workhouses of Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney and Listowel in 1849 and 1850. Leaving behind scenes of destitution and misery, the girls, some of whom spoke only Irish, set off to the other side of the world without any idea of what lay ahead.