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Remittance to Ireland – 1891

The Mercury (Hobart Tas.) 8th February 1891 p3
Servant Girls’ remittances to Ireland
Boston December 26
Mr. Patrick Donahoe, who in 1889, on behalf of Irish servant girls, sent 276,778 dol. to Ireland, has during the past two months sent nearly 50,000 dol. Mr. Donahoe does almost one-third of the Irish draft business of Boston. He says that the amount sent this Christmas exceeds the record of any previous Christmas. Mr Donahoe has a curious method of advertising, an announcement beginning, “We will, God willing, continue to our draft business etc.”

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Departures – 1883

The Sun, 11th March 1883 p1

Full Sail c. EO'D
Full Sail
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Four hundred and fifty girls leave Galway this week for Boston under a year’s engagement to New Hampshire cotton mill owners, who pay their expenses out. Several hundreds more wanted to go. There was an exciting scene on thursday at Limerick depot over the departure of 250 of them.