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    The Wrens of the Curragh were a community of women in nineteenth-century Ireland who lived outside society on the plains of Kildare, many of whom were...
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    Centre of the Irish Defence Forces. Records of women, known as Wrens of the Curragh, who were paid for sex work by soldiers at the camp, go back to the 1840s...
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    Catholics at the East Church. A gun was fired every day at reveille, at 1pm and at 9.30pm. The Wrens of the Curragh were a community of women, who lived...
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  • up wren in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wrens are passerine birds in the family Troglodytidae. Wren or Wrens may also refer to: New Zealand wren (Acanthisittidae)...
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    the women who became Wrens of the Curragh were famine orphans. The potato blight would return to Ireland in 1879, though by then the rural cottier tenant...
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  • "The Curragh Wrens". The Curragh History Web Site. Retrieved 12 June 2017. Luddy, Maria (1 September 1992). "An outcast community:the 'wrens' of the curragh"...
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    these young women became known as Wrens of the Curragh. It is estimated that one and a half million people died during the Famine and that a million emigrated...
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  • Amanda Coogan (category Alumni of the National College of Art and Design)
    Contemporary 2011.[citation needed] During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic she worked on a project about the Wrens of the Curragh. Coogan has had numerous solo exhibitions...
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    James Greenwood (journalist) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    to report on the lives of the Wrens of the Curragh. These women were prostitutes who lived on the edge of Curragh Camp to be close to the soldier customers...
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  • The Curraghs or Ballaugh Curraghs are a wetland in Ballaugh parish in the north-west of the Isle of Man. The area has a rich and varied biodiversity and...
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