Extraordinary Emigrants

Extraordinary Emigrants: Sr Ignatia recognised that alcoholism was not something to be cured and sought for hospital care to be made more widely available

Extraordinary Emigrants: William Bennet Stevenson triumphed in his efforts to rescue the population from starvation

Extraordinary Emigrants: Maureen O’Sullivan was a tenacious British agent. She returned to Ireland in the 1970s, but her time here didn’t end happily

Charles Gavan Duffy moved to Australia when he got fed up with politics in Ireland

Marguerite Moore said being imprisoned was the highest honour the English government could bestow on an Irishwoman. Then she took her activism to the US

Extraordinary Emigrants: Joseph Furphy was an optimistic who wrote long entertaining letters to his mother

The opera singer refused the title of Papal Countess from Pope Pius XI anxious not to forget her humble roots as ‘Peggy of Mayo’

The composer, whose parents were both Irish, is still remembered today in shows like The Simpsons

The son of a displaced Irish Jacobites family from Co Limerick became the prime minister of Spain

Extraordinary Emigrants: John Tyndall’s inventions also led to modern fibre optics, respirators, and fog horns