| Secondly, the measure is applicable irrespective of the financial means of each emigrant. |
| This plan may also cover the dependent family members of a deceased returned emigrant. |
| Finally, they could make a chart of the benefits of life as an emigrant in the backwoods versus life in an older, established country. |
| But that changed 150 years ago, when Ireland's potato blight and Britain's refusal to bail out the Irish sent millions to the emigrant ships. |
| To the emigrant Irish and to their adoptive countries, the shamrock logo represented all that was best in Irishness. |
| Only about 1 per cent of emigrant children had access to mother-tongue education or language classes. |
