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Emigrant’s
Teapot

1850-1950

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Archaeology

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It is telling that Irish folk culture developed its own objects specifically for the act of emigration. The sheer scale of outward migration in the decade of the Great Famine is staggering: 2.1 million people.

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An Post Ninth Definitive Stamp Series

A History of Ireland
in 100 Objects, a selection